first edition Full Morocco
1816 · London
by Rowlandson, Thomas
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Full Morocco. Near Fine. A rare hand-colored copy of one of Rowlandson's most delightful of works. 4to. 25 by 17 cm. 40 hand-colored etched plates. Front cover of original wrapper bound in at front. Highly attractive renderings of Regency life, high and low, town and country, with the element of caricature somewhat softened, in tandem with the soft hand-coloring. The atmosphere is gauzy, and it invites a longing and nostalgia, not a revulsion or contempt. The one consistent strain in the depictions is that they are outdoors, whether in a park, a woods, by the shore, on a town's High Street, a tavern, etc. Tooley 437. Full morocco binding by Riviere & Son.
(Inventory #: 006109)