Illustrated books -- Bibliography; Illustration of books; Printing -- History
Samuel Wale (died 1786), a pupil of Hayman, was also an illustrator, and
in 1760 supplied Sir John Hawkins with fourteen drawings for his edition
of Walton's _Angler_. These were engraved by the luckless W. W. Rylands,
who was hanged for forgery in 1783, and the Walton thus produced is one
of the prettiest and least affected of the illustrated books of its day
(see Plate XL). Wale also drew designs for Wilkie's _Fables_ (1768) and
Goldsmith's _Traveller_ (1774). He also worked for the magazines which
about the middle of the century made rather a feature of engravings,
often as headpieces to music. A few of the isolated books may be named,
thus Paltock's _Peter Wilkins_ (1750) was illustrated very well by Louis
Peter Boitard, who had previously contributed numerous plates to
Spence's _Polymetis_, and in 1751 supplied a frontispiece to each of the
six books of the _Scribleriad_ by R. O. Cambridge. Another book which,
like _Peter Wilkins_, was concerned with flight, Lunardi's _Account of
the first aerial voyage in England_ (1784), has a portrait of the author
by Bartolozzi and two plates. For Baskerville's edition of the _Orlando
Furioso_ (Birmingham, 1773) recourse was had to plates by De Launay,
after Moreau and Eisen.
FOOTNOTES:
[65] "In quo precipue tractat: An amico sepe ad scribendum prouocato
ut scribat, non respondenti sit amplius scribendum."
[66] It was probably from his Horae plates that Plantin illustrated
the _rerum Sacrarum Liber_ of Laur. Gambara in 1577. They are printed
with the text and are of average merit.
[67] They were bought to accompany the fine set of De Bry collected
by Mr. Grenville, but have since been transferred to the Department
of Prints and Drawings.
[68] Contributed to the work by Sir Sidney Colvin, _Early Engravers
and Engraving in England_, already quoted.
[69] This was an early proof of the portrait which is found in a
slightly different state in copies of the third edition, and seemed
to be an insertion in the first edition rather than an integral part
of it.
CHAPTER XVI
MODERN FINE PRINTING
After the Restoration, printing and the book trade generally in England
became definitely modern in their character, and the printer practically
disappears from view, his work, with here and there an exception, as in
the case of Robert Foulis or John Baskerville, being altogether hidden
behind that of the publisher, so that it is of Herringman and Bernard
Lintott and Dodsley that we hear, not of Newcomb and Roycroft.
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