(ROWLANDSON THOMAS) The English Dance of Death

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(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS.) The English Dance of Death. 2 volumes. Engraved colored title-page and 74 hand-colored engraved plates by Rowlandson. Tall 8vo, contemporary full blue calf, blind-stamped borders within single gilt rules, spines tooled in gilt and blind, some uneven fading, light scattered staining; intermittent foxing, offsetting to facing text from plates. first editions in book form. "Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson" (Tooley 410); Abbey, Life 263. London: R. Ackerman, 1815 (1816); 1816

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with-The Dance of Life. 26 color engravings by Rowlandson, including frontispiece and title. Tall 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, sprinkled edges, slight edgewear, joints touched-up; one signature starting, loosening a few plates; endpapers foxed with bookplate remnant on front pastedown. First Edition. London, 1817. Tooley 411; Abbey, Life 264.