LOT 3570
30th November 2021
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LOT 3570
ETCHING. - William HOGARTH. The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste. London: J. Reeves, 1753. First edition, 4to (253 x 200mm.) Title with woodcut vignette, 'Contents' leaf with errata verso and frontispiece etching of Colombus's Egg with contemporary manuscript description mounted verso the frontispiece. (Frontispiece loose, front blank loose, lacking the 2 engraved plates, toning, spotting to title-page margins and rear leaves.) Contemporary calf (upper cover detached, rubbing). Provenance: 'Doctor Fry' (ink inscribed on front blank); 'Lady Paul' (gift inscribed to on the front blank); Rev. John Taylor Allen (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further five volumes relating to art (including David Croal Thomson's 'Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne 'Phiz'', 1884, 4to) (6).
Hammer price: £60
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