No copies located in British libraries. Walker not mentioned by Twyman in Early Lithographed Books. A fine nineteenth-century collection of portraits showing members of the nobility after numerous artists such as C. Macpherson, W. Purser, J. Hayes, J. Wood and H. On the wall behind hangs a painting of the martrydom of Saint Sebastian. The print was listed in the Bibliographie de France for p.
Copy number 50 of copies of the limited edition, signed by the illustrator. Edward Detmold was the longest surviving of the two tragic Detmold twins who had attracted the attention of artists such as Edward Burne-Jones as children and young artists. Edward himself continued to make prints and publish illustrated books until his own suicide in Animals and birds were their primary subjects and to varying degrees, their prints exhibit the clear influence of the Japanese master printmakers.
This is one of copies on Moirans paper after 15 Japon and 5 hors commerce copies. Minkoff A Sole edition of a rare illustrated poetical collection by a so-far unidentified woman of the English community at the Breton town of Dinan. The subscribers list contains 52 names, mainly English and mainly women. They are captioned with excerpts from the verses. Worldcat: Columbia and Bn. First edition of the first standard code of the order of Freemasons in England.
It was to become the basis of Masonic constitutions on both sides of the Atlantic, being the edition from which Franklin printed the Philadelphia constitutions the following year. Anderson, born at Aberdeen, and educated as a Minister of the Church of Scotland moved to London in , where he continued preaching and is reputed to have lost money in an unwise investment in the South Sea Company. A second edition followed in that provided a fuller account of the speculative origins and early history of English masonry.
The printing of the Constitutions was an enterprise which drew together several prominent British Freemasons. Publisher John Senex also reveals himself as a mason, while the fine frontispiece is by John Pine. It was this image which elevated Pine to the status of principal engraver to the Grand Lodge and he subsequently executed many works on their behalf.
