$3,500
London: Boydell, [1777]-1819. 3 vols. Folio, bound by J. Mackenzie & son in 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. First edition, with 300 mezzotint engraved plates by Earlom after Claude Lorrain's pastoral, biblical and mythological subjects, printed in bistre, and three engraved portrait frontispieces of Lorrain, Earlom and Boydell. Abbey speaks of "this capital work, a landmark in the history of reproduction master drawings ..." This is the first complete edition, with the engravings in the best and final state. Edgewear to boards; hinges rubbed and tender; dampstain, mainly marginal, to bottom left corner of 2/3 of the plates, affecting the image of a few; otherwise a fine set, rarely found complete.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-04-10
