Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day: With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured FrontispieceTuer, Andrew White
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Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day: With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured Frontispiece
Tuer, Andrew White
Cries -- England -- London
Sir Charles Grandison. By SAMUEL RICHARDSON. With Six Illustrations
from the original copper-plates engraved in 1778 by ISAAC TAYLOR;
and a Preface by JOHN OLDCASTLE. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The
Leadenhall Press, E.C.
[Sixteen-Pence.
The beautiful illustrations have been carefully and separately struck
off direct from the original copper-plates themselves--the only method
of printing by which the minuteness and beauty of the engraved work can
be properly rendered.
"A marvellously cheap series illustrated with charming survivals of the
age of copperplate printing."--_Saturday Review._
* * * * *
SOLOMON GESSNER.
SOLOMON GESSNER, "The Swiss Theocritus." With Six Illustrations and
Extra Portrait from the Original Copper-plates engraved in 1802 by
ROBERT CROMEK, from Drawings by THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A., and a
Preface by JOHN OLDCASTLE. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall
Press, E.C.
[Sixteen-Pence.
The beautiful illustrations have been carefully and separately struck
off direct from the original copper-plates themselves--the only method
of printing by which the minuteness and beauty of the engraved work can
be properly rendered.
"The choice engravings from the original plates will have a charm of
thousands."--_St. James's Gazette._
MR. ANDREW W. TUER.
(_Dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty the Queen._)
The Follies and Fashions of Our Grand-Fathers (1807). Embellished
with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates, including Ladies' and
Gentlemen's Dress (hand-coloured and heightened with gold and
silver), Sporting and Coaching Scenes (hand-coloured), Fanciful
Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, etc. (many from original
copper-plates). By ANDREW W. TUER, author of "Bartolozzi and his
Works,' etc. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.
Large paper copies, crown 4to, with _earliest impressions_ of the
plates; 250 only, signed and numbered, at Three Guineas.
Demy 8vo copies at Twenty-five Shillings.
Quaint, amusing, dependable, and distinctly covetable. The binding more
than suggests buckskin breeches and needlework samplers: in fact, they
are _there_. The extra illustrations include many quaint prints of the
period printed direct from the original copper-plates.
"May at any time be confidently dipped into by readers in search of
quiet diversion."--_Graphic._
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1,000 Quaint Cuts from Books of Other Days, including Amusing
Illustrations from Children's Story Books, Fables, Chap-books,
etc., etc.; a Selection of Pictorial Initial Letters and Curious
Designs and Ornaments, from Original Wooden Blocks belonging to The
Leadenhall Press. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.
[Sixteen-Pence.
A limited number printed on one side of the paper only at
Two-and-Eightpence.
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