 Author Name: Barker, Thomas
Title: Forty Lithographic Impressions from Drawings, selected from his studies of Rustic Figures after Nature
Publisher: Bath 1813
Seller ID: 717
large 4to (422 x 330 mm), title, includes advertisement leaf, 2 page subscribers leaf, 40 pen lithographed plates on tinted paper, mounted, original boards with label on upper cover, uncut, rebacked, one of only 200 copies, published by subscription. Boards quite clean with some wear to edges, a bit more rubbing at the foot, slightly indented at top, else very nice condition which is rare for a book this size. Interior very good with some light foxing throughout. Barker specialized in rustic genre paintings, fancy pictures, studies of local characters, and landscapes. Some of his works were so popular that they were widely copied on pottery, china, and fabrics. This volume presents his most innovative work, the first one-man collection of lithographs ever printed in England. Scarce. E-mail for more pictures.
Early Lithographs
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