Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ROWLANDSON,THOMAS.) [Combe, William.] The English Dance of Death. 2 volumes * The English Dance of Life. Together, 3 volumes. Illustrated with a total of 98 hand-colored aquatint plates by Rowlandson. 8vo, uniformly bound in later full red straight-grained morocco, covers blocked in gilt, spines tooled in gilt in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 2, turn-ins and all edges gilt, by Tout; scattered foxing but mostly confined to margins and plate versos; Charles N. Dietz bookplate to front pastedowns; each in felt-lined cloth folding case. London: R. Ackerman, 1815-16; 1817
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first editions in book form. A beautifully bound set. "Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson"--(Tooley 410-411); Hardie 172; Abbey Life, 263-264; Prideaux 332; Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 35.