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DANIELL, William (engr).
The Adventures of Hunch-Back, and the Stories Connected with it (from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.) With illustrative Prints, engraved by William Daniell, from pictures painted by Robert Smirke, R. A. Arabian Nights
The illustrator, Robert Smirke, had become a Member of the Royal Academy in 1793. The engraver, William Daniell, was best known for the eight-volume Oriental scenery (1795-1808) which he and his uncle, Thomas Daniell. Attractive plates.
- Published
- London: Printed for William Daniell... by Thomas Davison, 1814.
- References
- Abbey Travel II 366.
- Plates
- 17
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Printed for William Daniell... by Thomas Davison, 1814.
- Ref
- 230
Folio ( 42.5 x 31 cm) [2] 99 [1] pp. With 17 hand-colored aquatint plates on mounted India-proof paper engraved by William Daniel after Robert Smirke. Nineteenth-century half morocco & cloth rebacked in recent morocco; tooled in gilt; raised spine bands; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST EDITION, thus a large-paper copy, RARE with the plates colored and in an untrimmed state. Some rubbing and soiling to covers; occasional, light, mostly marginal foxing but most images unscathed; very good or better. Coloured plates in order: 1. Hunch-Back & the Tailor. 2. The Supper. 3. The Jewish Physician. 4. The Purveyor. 5. The Christian Merchant. 6. From the Merchant's Story. 7. From the Purveyor's Story. 8. From the Physician's Story. 9. From the Tailor's Story. 10. The Officious Barber. 11. Bacbouc, the Barber's first brother. 12. Bacbarah, the Barber's second brother. 13. Backbac, the Barber's third brother. 14. Alcouz, the Barber's fourth brother. 15. Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother. 16. Schacabac, the Barber's sixth brother. 17. The Recovery of the Hunch-Back.
