[ Spanish bull fighting. London, Edward Ormé, 1813].
Estimation :
250 / 300
Description
In-4° : 11 text lvs and 13 pl. (some foxing, a few little perforations in the lower margins of the plates).
19th Century pastiche binding : threequarter long grained leather, paper boards, gilt stamped flat spine.
13 numbered aquatints by Matthew Dubourg after John Heaviside Clark (c. 1771–1836), a Scottish painter and aquatint. The plates depicting scenes of bullfighting, of which 1 gives a general view of a bull fight, are FINELY ENHANCED with watercolours and accompanied by explanatory texts of which the last and longer one strongly criticises the sport. From the "Spanish bullfighting series" originally published in "Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting ancedotes", by Edward Ormé in 1814.
IHFZ Recueil de 13 aquatintes finement rehaussées à l'aquarelle, accompagnées de textes explicatifs et critiques. Rel. pastiche du 19e s. (pet. défauts).
19th Century pastiche binding : threequarter long grained leather, paper boards, gilt stamped flat spine.
13 numbered aquatints by Matthew Dubourg after John Heaviside Clark (c. 1771–1836), a Scottish painter and aquatint. The plates depicting scenes of bullfighting, of which 1 gives a general view of a bull fight, are FINELY ENHANCED with watercolours and accompanied by explanatory texts of which the last and longer one strongly criticises the sport. From the "Spanish bullfighting series" originally published in "Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting ancedotes", by Edward Ormé in 1814.
IHFZ Recueil de 13 aquatintes finement rehaussées à l'aquarelle, accompagnées de textes explicatifs et critiques. Rel. pastiche du 19e s. (pet. défauts).
