SUPERB ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE ROBERTS EGYPT PLATE, HAND-COLORED
ROBERTS, David. Temple at Wady Dabod, Nubia. London, 1842-49.
Beautiful original hand-colored lithograph of the Temple at Wady Dabod, Nubia, from the superb large format first issue of Roberts’ landmark work, Egypt and Nubia (only the first issue is hand-colored on onionskin and mounted on heavier card). $3000.
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"THE GREATEST MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH 18TH-CENTURY CRITICISM"
JOHNSON, Samuel. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London, 1783. Four volumes.
1783 edition of Johnson's celebrated Lives of the Poets—"the only edition of importance after the first. It is the only edition which Johnson revised, and the last he lived to see"—with engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, a splendid four-volumes in scarce contemporary polished calf. $1750.
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"THE LOVELIEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE BUT SHADOWS; THEY COME AND GO, AND CHANGE AND FADE AWAY"
DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London, 1844.
First edition in book form of Dickens' picaresque novel of "farce, melodrama, and social criticism," with 40 full-page etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne ("Phiz"), attractively bound. $1500.
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