Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS) [Combe Imitation, William.] The Grand Master; or, Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan, a Hudibrastic Poem, in Eight Cantos by Quiz. Folding hand colored aquatint frontispiece, hand-colored title and 26 aquatint plates by Rowlandson. Tall 8vo, original calf-backed boards, lettering piece to spine, boards soiled, spine dried and split with partial loss, joints cracked; signatures loose but intact, offsetting to facing pages from plates; housed in folding chemise; Alfred Nathan and Norman J. Sondheim bookplates. Errata slip at end, lacking the cancel leaf C8 as usual. first edition of this parody in the manner of combe, untrimmed in the scarce original boards and fragile as such. London: Thomas Tegg, 1816