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An essay on transparent prints, and on transparencies in general (oversize)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection K095

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Type of record: Book

Title: An essay on transparent prints, and on transparencies in general (oversize)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection K095

Creator(s): Orme, Edward

Additional creator(s): Charlotte consort of George III, King of Great Britain (1744-1818) (Dedicatee); Barnard, John George (1802-1821) (Printer); Orme, Edward (Publisher); White, John (1785-1816) (Bookseller); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Champante and Whitrow (Bookseller); J. Whatman (Papermaker); Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme (Bookseller); Rowe and Waller (Bookseller); Vernor and Hood (Bookseller)

Publisher: Printed for, and sold by, the Author, Bond Street, the corner of Brook Street; Longman and Co. Paternoster Row; Vernor and Hood, Poultry; White, Fleet Street : Champante and Whitrow, Aldgate : Ostel, Paternoster Row : Rowe and Waller, Fleet Street, and al; J.G. Barnard, printer, 57, Snow Hill

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1807

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], vii, [1], 64 [3] p., [17] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/746387

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020064796105181

Description

Dedication to Queen Charlotte and princesses Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, Amelia.


Engraved title page with etched vignette (142 x 185 mm.). With a half title.


Signed in 4s. Watermark on certain pages: J. Whatman 1804. Illustrations are etchings and aquatints; some wood-engraved vignettes.


With French parallel text.


Plates are dated 1807 and 1806. Engraved by J Pastorini, J Godby, J Swaine, C Knight and H Merten[?] and others.


Bedford Collection K095 copy has catalogue of other works just published by Edward Orme, The Fine Arts, in four pages, one ready for delivery in June 1812.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K095: loose excerpt from sale catalogue, no 157, for this item?; loose excerpt from Bonhams Oxford 11 September 2009 catalogue listing another copy of this item for sale; loose photocopied excerpt from Ken Spelman Rare Books September 2009 catalogue, no. 29, three scare transparent prints published by Edward Orme.


Bindings


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K095: original publisher's boards with printed title label.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K095: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORT/9.

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