Descrizione

2 volumes. First Edition. Collates complete with 92 plates by Hogarth, and with anecdotal descriptions of his pictures by Ireland. 8vo, recent calf back marble boards. Some intermittent spotting and stains, but a very nice copy in attractive binding.

Edizione: an excellent work on william hogarth, featuring many plates. william hogarth's popular engravings are here provided with "a moral and analytical description," with a "description of what i conceive the comic and moral tendencies of each."<br> the most considerable english figure in book illustration of the early eighteenth century, hogarth (1697-1764) was trained as a silversmith's engraver, but found his niche as a maker of prints aimed at the common man. his series of engravings, such as "the harlot's progress," "marriage a la mode," and "the analysis of beauty," were immensely popular in his lifetime and immediately inspired numerous plays and novels, and they continued to be reprinted for many years. as lamb said of him, "other pictures we look at--his prints we read."