SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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CLARK, John Heaviside.
A Practical Illustration of Gilpin's Day, representing the various effects on Landscape Scenery from Morning till Night...

Published
London: J. Hayes [and] Proprietors by Priestley and Weale and C. Knight, 1824
References
Abbey Life 110; Martin Hardie pp.119-120; Bobins 630.
Plates
30
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
London: J. Hayes [and] Proprietors by Priestley and Weale and C. Knight, 1824
Ref
5549

Folio, title, dedication, introduction, and text. Thirty hand-coloured aquatint plates after Gilpin. Modern 3/4 red straight-grained morocco with gilt in rule and an earlier lettering piece to upper board. Raised bands in gilt to spine, marbled edges, and coloured endpapers. This work was intended as a watercolour artist's handbook and was marketed accordingly. Coloured plates in order: 1. Dawn of Day. 2. Early Morn. 3. Dull Morning. 4. Sun Rise. 5. Turbid Sun Rise. 6. Bright Sun Rise. 7. Cool Morning. 8. Cloudy Morning. 9. Hazy Morn. 10. Rainbow. 11. Mid-Day. 12. Thunder Storm. 13. Lightning. 14. Rain. 15. Distant Rainbow. 16. Clearing after Rain. 17. Sun-Set. 18. Sun-Set preceding a Storm. 19. Calm Sun-Set. 20. Sultry Sun-Set. 21. Ruddy Sun-Set. 22. Freaky Sun-Set. 23. Evening closing in. 24. Silent Lightning. 25. Twilight. 26. Crescent. 27. Full Moon. 28. Cloudy Moonlight. 29. Clear Moonlight. 30. Waning Moon.