SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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HARDING, J. D.
Harding's Portfolio.

James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) was a recognized painter. lithographer, and watercolorist of his day. He made a name for himself through a number of drawing manuals published in the 1830s. This is one of several books he published on landscape views. This one contains twenty-four tinted lithographic plates of European scenes.

Published
London: Charles Tilt, 1837.
Plates
24
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Charles Tilt, 1837.
Ref
433

Folio. 24 hand-coloured lithographs. Half maroon leather binding with gilt-stamped title to upper board, title in gilt to spine, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers, small booksellers ticket to front pastedown. Extremities rubbed, light foxing and soiling to plates. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. The Thames near Rotherhithe. 2. Ludgate Hill, London. 3. On the Thames near Gravesend. 4. The Low Fall Aysgarth, Yorkshire. 5. [Hastings] 6. Arundel Castle. 7. Hastings Beach. 8. Little Hampton, on the Arun. 9. Entrance to Fieldskirch. 10. Fieldkirch Castle. 11. Tyrolese Peasants at Maltz. 12. Trento, Tyrol. 13. Boppart, on the Rhine. 14. Bacharach on the Rhine. 15. Ehrenfels on the Rhine. 16. Finisso Castle, Val d'Aosta. 17. Croix d'Arrolet, Val Savaranche. 18. Ivrea, Val d'Aosta. 19. Roccabruna, Coast of Genoa. 20. Pallazuolo. 21. Cathedral at Puy, France. 22. Sisteron, South of France. 23. Pont-Neuf, Paris. 24. Rouen.