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HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) – Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases Mostly of Pure Greek Workmanship. Naples: Tischbein, 1791-1795.
This lavishly-illustrated work records Hamilton's second collection and is particularly valuable because one-third of the collection was lost when the ship transporting it to England sank off the Isles of Scilly. The use of simple outline, rather than the elaborate coloured engravings of the first collection catalogue, was in keeping with Hamilton's original intention for the first catalogue: to be affordable to contemporary artists and manufacturers for use as a pattern book. A fourth volume was published some time after Hamilton's death. Blackmer 778; Brunet V, 866; RIBA 3319.
3 volumes bound in 2, folio (484 x 363mm). Engraved frontispiece, English and French engraved titles in each volume, and 194 engraved plates on 191 sheets, all on laid paper watermarked 'M', plates in vol. III in a later state with plate numbers and letters top-right (some plates in all vols trimmed close by the binder; vol. I: first 2 plates lightly creased, marginal soiling to Ll1, occasional light scattered spotting, soiling and browning, more heavily affecting pls 17, 34, 38-41 and towards end; vol. II: pl. 31 highly defective with only small left-hand portion remaining, occasional light scattered spotting and browning, heavily affecting pl. 56; vol. III: dampstain affecting pls 45-48). 19th-century half red morocco, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, corners lightly bumped, head- and tail-bands loose in vol. II). Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
This lavishly-illustrated work records Hamilton's second collection and is particularly valuable because one-third of the collection was lost when the ship transporting it to England sank off the Isles of Scilly. The use of simple outline, rather than the elaborate coloured engravings of the first collection catalogue, was in keeping with Hamilton's original intention for the first catalogue: to be affordable to contemporary artists and manufacturers for use as a pattern book. A fourth volume was published some time after Hamilton's death. Blackmer 778; Brunet V, 866; RIBA 3319.
3 volumes bound in 2, folio (484 x 363mm). Engraved frontispiece, English and French engraved titles in each volume, and 194 engraved plates on 191 sheets, all on laid paper watermarked 'M', plates in vol. III in a later state with plate numbers and letters top-right (some plates in all vols trimmed close by the binder; vol. I: first 2 plates lightly creased, marginal soiling to Ll1, occasional light scattered spotting, soiling and browning, more heavily affecting pls 17, 34, 38-41 and towards end; vol. II: pl. 31 highly defective with only small left-hand portion remaining, occasional light scattered spotting and browning, heavily affecting pl. 56; vol. III: dampstain affecting pls 45-48). 19th-century half red morocco, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, corners lightly bumped, head- and tail-bands loose in vol. II). Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
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