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Hogarth's progress

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection D338

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Type of record: Book

Title: Hogarth's progress

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection D338

Creator(s): Quennell, Peter (1905-1993)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764; Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

Publisher: Collins

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1955]

Language: English

Size and medium: 318 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719877

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019760147605181

Description

Illustrations on lining papers.


"First impression July, 1955. Second impression December, 1955"--Title page verso.


Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and index.


Bartholomew close -- The battle of taste -- Annus mirabilis -- London background -- The pictorial dramatist -- Covent garden -- Tom rakewell -- People and places -- Marriage-a-la mode -- Portrait of the artist -- Calais gate -- The line of beauty -- Humours of an election -- Wilkes and churchill -- "Tail Piece: the bathos".

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at D338: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: BG/63. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Thomas Byam Shaw.

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