Lot 5089: GROSE, FRANCIS. 1731-1791. Regeln zur Karikaturzeichnung nebset einem Versuche uber die Komische Mahlerei. Leipzig: Baumgartnerischen & Wien: Mollo und Komp, [1800].

Name: GROSE, FRANCIS. 1731-1791. Regeln zur Karikaturzeichnung nebset einem Versuche uber die Komische Mahlerei. Leipzig: Baumgartnerischen & Wien: Mollo und Komp, [1800].
Brand: Bonhams
SKU: f72011cb6d

Est: $600 USD - $800 USD

BonhamsNew York, NY, USApril 16, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Regeln zur Karikaturzeichnung nebset einem Versuche uber die Komische Mahlerei. Leipzig: Baumgartnerischen & Wien: Mollo und Komp, [1800].
8vo (180 x 129 mm). [2], 46 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 28 engraved plates (six large folding) on thin olive-tinted sheets. Period mottled calf, morocco spine panels. Some creasing to folding plates, upper board scored, joints just starting at head.

FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION of one of the earliest works on the art of caricature, originally published in London in 1788.

Artist or Maker

Francis Grose

Auction Details

Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection

Bonhams

April 16, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

580 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, US

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