Ken Spelman Books, ABA.
MARVY, Louis. Sketches after English Landscape Painters. With short notices by W.M. Thackeray. , David Bogue, 1850.Half-Leather. Very Good. (6)pp., 20 fine engraved plates each with a leaf of descriptive text. A very good clean copy bound in contemporary dark red half morocco, gilt panelled spine, marbled boards, top-edge-gilt. 4to. David Bogue. [1850]. In November 1849 Thackeray was assisted by the struggling artist Eyre Crow in producing the accompanying text for his friend Louis Marvy's engravings of Sketches after English Landscape Painters. The letter-press consists of a Preface and twenty short notices of Sir A. W. Calloott, Turner, Holland, Danby, Creswick, Collins, Redgrave, Lee, Cattennole, W. J. Miiller, Harding, Nasmyth, Richard Wilson, E. W. Cooke, John Constable, P. de Wint, Cox, Gainsborough, Roberts and Stanfield. This was to be Marvy's last major work, he died soon after publication. (Book ref. 105476) £225.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Ken Spelman Books, ABA. , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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