New York

Second edition.
Publisher's bicolored orange and green paper boards, smooth spine.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Small foxing to the endpapers, otherwise a good copy.

Reprint.
Work illustrated with numerous facsimiles.
Staining to head, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition. Nineteenth-century half cloth with raised diamond pattern. Headcaps rubbed with small cloth losses. Important work constituting a solid reference in the field. The author founded the National Academy of Design. Numerous artists referenced. This work extends to very diverse fields such as Egyptian architecture. It begins with a history of drawing in England in the second half of the 18th century.

First edition of the English translation.
Iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has tears and marginal lacks.

First edition.
Full black cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, blind frames on boards.
A pale marginal dampstain affecting the very last pages of text and table of contents, otherwise handsome interior condition.
Rare.

The London printing and publishing company, London & New-York s.d. (circa 1860), 23.5x31cm, bound.
First edition.
Publisher’s half black and brick-red shagreen, spine in six compartments with gilt floral motifs and blindruled compartments, very lightly soiled, gilt friezes to head and foot, head- and tail-pieces slightly bumped, double gilt fillets to covers, central gilt medallion and portrait of Hogarth to upper cover, corners scratched and rubbed, white moiré silk endpapers and pastedowns, gilt edges.
Hors-texte illustrations, introduction by James Hannay.
A little spotting, mostly to beginning and end.

First edition.
A very good copy retaining its photographic dustjacket.