The Complete Works of William Hogarth with Steel Engravings

Description: A late 1800’s full Moroccan Leather with embossed gilt portrait of William Hogarth. Includes 150 engraved steel plate prints. All tool work and gold embossed image of vignette of Hogarth's torso, dog and books. Five raised bands on the spine with tooled details. Tight binding with sharp crisp images. Moire silk doublures with gilt borders, moire silk endpapers. All gilt edges. Leather has some minor wear to outside edges. Spine ends have a little shelf wear. Gilt edges have some scratches. Front end paper loose. Else a very good copy. Introduction essay by James Hannay and is printed and published by The London Printing and Publishing Co., 201 pages and Descriptive Letterpress by Rev. J. Trusler and E. F. Roberts. Size: 12 x 9 inches. William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read. (Wikipedia)

Price: 299.95 USD

Location: Hillsboro, Oregon

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