(SCRAPBOOK.) Album of mounted engravings and
(SCRAPBOOK.) Album of mounted engravings and title-pages [compiled by] early nineteenth-century Philadelphia printer and bookseller, James P. Parke. Approximately 170 engraved, stipple, and aquatint plates clipped and mounted to leaves of "T Gilpin & Co/1810" watermarked laid paper. Thick 8vo, 9½x6¼ inches, contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, spine worn and with some loss; scattered soiling and corner stains from tipping adhesive. James P. Parke, Philadelphia bookplate to front pastedown.-Vp, assembled circa 1810-1820
Interesting group of 18th/19th century engraved plates contemporaneously assembled from various American, British, and French sources collecting a variety of subject matter including botany, natural history, mythology, political emblems, historical scenes, architecture, interiors, and portraits.
Many of the plates appear scarce, but to mention just a few:
Calendar for the Nineteenth Century, by David Mandeville. (Circular perpetual calendar with separate printed explanation broadside).
Tomb of Washington, engraved by George Murray after Gideon Fairman and William Rawle.
A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures, engraved by Charles Grignion after Michel Vincent Brandoin.
Radnor Church with Gen. Wayne's Monument, engraved by Tiebout after Strickland.
William Penn's treaty medal, engraved by Murray.
A suite of humorous reversible ambigrams by Harding.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, by Joseph Delaplaine.
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(SCRAPBOOK.) Album of mounted engravings and title-pages [compiled by] early nineteenth-century Philadelphia printer and bookseller, James P. Parke. Approximately 170 engraved, stipple, and aquatint plates clipped and mounted to leaves of "T Gilpin & Co/1810" watermarked laid paper. Thick 8vo, 9½x6¼ inches, contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, spine worn and with some loss; scattered soiling and corner stains from tipping adhesive. James P. Parke, Philadelphia bookplate to front pastedown.-Vp, assembled circa 1810-1820
Interesting group of 18th/19th century engraved plates contemporaneously assembled from various American, British, and French sources collecting a variety of subject matter including botany, natural history, mythology, political emblems, historical scenes, architecture, interiors, and portraits.
Many of the plates appear scarce, but to mention just a few:
Calendar for the Nineteenth Century, by David Mandeville. (Circular perpetual calendar with separate printed explanation broadside).
Tomb of Washington, engraved by George Murray after Gideon Fairman and William Rawle.
A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures, engraved by Charles Grignion after Michel Vincent Brandoin.
Radnor Church with Gen. Wayne's Monument, engraved by Tiebout after Strickland.
William Penn's treaty medal, engraved by Murray.
A suite of humorous reversible ambigrams by Harding.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, by Joseph Delaplaine.
