HOGARTH (WILLIAM)


The Works... from the Original Plates Restored by James Heath... With the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, edited by John Nichols, engraved frontispiece portrait, 151 engraved plates on 115 sheets, 2 additional plates ("Before" and "After") and group of albumen prints (see footnote) loosely inserted in wallet inside lower cover, occasional spotting, red half morocco gilt, by J. Wright (signed in gilt on upper dentelle), g.e., with lock and key (working), folio (640 x 480mm.), Baldwin and Cradock, [c.1835]
|This copy retains the "Before" and "After" plates, often missing due to their suggestive subject matter, but here kept within the book under "lock and key". Loosely inserted at the end are seven albumen prints depicting the Raphael Cartoons, with two letterpress notes on "instructions for mounting photographs", and framing by George Wallis, Office of Government Photographs and Reproductions, South Kensington.Provenance: William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol (1832-1913), bookplate.