Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton
( Henry ALKEN and T.J. RAWLINS, illus. ) NIMROD, pseud., [[C.J., APPERLEY], ]
With numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. Second [and Best] Edition, reprinted (with considerable Additions).
AQUATINT PLATES FINELY COLOURED BY HAND
Published: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837
Stock code: 12677
Price: £925.00
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured aquatint frontispiece, elaborately engraved and printed titles, and 17 fine coloured aquatint plates (some plates with original tissue guards present, a few lightly age-soiled at fore-margins only), ALL AQUATINT PLATES FINELY COLOURED BY HAND, printed title and fore-margins lightly age-soiled, C6 frayed at outer margin (not affecting text), lateral tear in J7 repaired with slight misalignment of text; handsomely bound in mid-nineteenth century green half morocco, marbled boards ruled in blind, back gilt with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a floral design, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
With the large nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Frederick W. Disney on front paste-down. The plate 'Stand and Deliver' is placed opposite p.50 rather than p.26 as called for. Apperley's classic account was first published in 1835 with only twelve plates; here three of the original plates are replaced by new ones, and six new plates added. This copy has all the earlier state points: plate 1 aquatinted by H. Alken, the spelling 'filly' in plate 9 and correct page numbers on plates 17-18. This copy is bound without the final printer's leaf and publisher's advertisements at end. Abbey, Life, 385; Hardie, pp.185-6 & 320; Prideaux, p.326; Tooley 67.+