Domby and Son
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First Edition. Octavo. Item #023006
First issue with the 8 line errata inserted after p. xvi. 624pp. illustrated by H.K. Browne with 40 plates including frontispiece and vignette titlepage. Domby and Son contain the first published example of the so called dark plate, which was created by a machine process that tinted the plate and heightened it with a black and white contrast. And this is the first time Browne etched some of his horizontal plates. Frontispiece and vignette title have some scattered foxing, other plates mostly have browning to upper margins with occasional spots of foxing. Text is clean and bright. Bound in full green morocco double ruled gilt, spine has changed to an even tone of brown, raised bands with compartment fully decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, From the library of E.G. Pool with his bookplate. A very nice copy.
Price: $1,950.00