IBBETSON, Julius Caesar (1759-1817) SKU: 20664 Barcode:
London: Hookham and Carpenter, 1793.
First Edition. Quarto (24.5 x 19.5 cm); pp [1], 266. [2]. With 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispiece. Bound without the half-title in dark green morocco with marbled sides, slightly rubbed esp. at corners, raised bands with double fillets to spine with gilt titling. Some light spots of foxing to last few leaves. Top edge gilt, others slightly foxed. Coloured plates extremely clean and dark printed, the majority with tissue-guards. An excellent copy rebound in slightly later half morocco. Ibbetson was a Yorkshire-born artist whose smaller scale drawings suited book illustration. His special skill as an animal, and in particular, cattle painter, can be seen in the illustrations in this work. Abbey (Scenery), 38; ESTC T54291; Tooley 277.
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