Item #16079 The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress. Edward Finden, or under immediate superintendence of engraved by, Thomas Moore.
The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress
The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress
The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress
The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress
The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress
The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress

The Beauties of Moore : A Series of Portraits of his Principal Female Characters : from Paintings by Eminent Artists, Executed expressly for the work ... With a Memoir of the Poet, and Descriptive Letterpress

London: John Tallis and Company, 1853.

Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #16079

Tone and foxed, free endpapers creased, shelfworn with corner wear, blotted owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover. ; Leather spine and corners with gold tooling. 49 steel engravings including extra illustrated title page with portrait of Thomas Moore. Each plate of female character in Moore's poetry has an accompanying short critical commentary on that beauty. Undated, publisher's name 1850-1854. Added steel-engraved illustrated title-page plate with imprints: "Portrait Painted by Sir T. Lawrence, Border by J. Marchant" and "Engraved by E. Finden." Includes "Life of Thomas Moore.": pages [v]-viii. Plates are engraved by W. Edwards, E. Finden, W. Holl, W.H. Mote, T.W. Knight, H. Hall, F. Holl, H. Robinson, W.H. Egleton, W. Gibbs, J. Thompson or H.S. Ball after W.P. Frith, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J. Wood, E.M. Ward, A. Elmore, W. Fisher, R.T. Bott, J. Wright, A. Derby, E. Hawkes, W. Maddox, [i.e. Wiles Maddox?], W. Room, J.G. Middleton, F. Crowley, A. Egg, H. O'Neil, S. Hart, S. Newton, F. Stone [i.e. Frank Stone?], A. de Valentini or H. Warren [i.e. Henry Warren?] . All plates are with imprint: "John Tallis & Company, London, Edinburgh, Dublin & New York." "The Borders Designed by J. Marchant. The Whole Engraved under the Superintendence of Mr. Edward Finden." Attractive Victorian era illustrated book.; viii, [96] pages, 49 unnumbered plates pages.

Price: $199.95

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