The Passions, Humourously Delineated by Timothy Bobbin. 15 Hand Coloured Plates from the famous 1810 edition. Printed for Edward Orme, by J. Hayes, Westminster.
Bond Styreet, London: Edward Orme, Printseller to the King, 1810. Unframed Print. Fair Condition. Item #375858
15 contemporary hand coloured plates, one image per plate, and each image approx. 16 x 21 cms. The colouring is correct and of the period, and quite neatly executed. The 15 plates can be seen in the pictures, along with the original title and author portrait. It is an INCOMPLETE & IMPERFECT selection, featuring 15 plates (2 of which have significant tears), all somewhat age marked and grubby finger marked, with a few plates entirely absent, not all the text present, and very worn and totally detached original boards. It is priced appropriately to account for the defects. ONLY THOSE PLATES SHOWN IN THE ACCOMPANYING PICTURES ARE INCLUDED. The plates will lend themselves to being mounted in an album or with framing mounts and will look all the better for it. It is an uncommon volume in coloured form. A riot of grotesques, drinkers, schemers, rustics, hypocrites, and wide eyed innocents, Bobbin's work captures the full, unvarnished comedy of 18th century Lancashire life. Bobbin, real name John Collier, was a schoolmaster with a wicked eye for human folly, and these plates are his private theatre: Hogarthian in spirit, but rougher, earthier, and far more northern in their humour. Every face is pulled into some impossible contortion; every gesture is halfway between a joke and a confession. You can almost hear the muttered dialect, the tavern clatter, the sharp intake of breath before someone says something they shouldn't. Bobbin wasn't drawing polite society, he was drawing people as they actually behaved, and he does it with a kind of affectionate savagery. Bobbin is a link to a vanished world: the old Lancashire of alehouses, gossip, and broad humour. Size: 21.5 x 27 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; New Arrivals; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost.
Keywords: BZDB395 Antiquarian & Rare; New Arrivals; Unbranded 15 HANDCOLOURED GROTESQUE MISCHIEFS The Passions, Humourously Delineated by Timothy Bobbin. 15 Hand Coloured Plates from the famous 1810 edition. Printed for Edward Orme, by J. Hayes, Westminste
Price: £195.00