M`CRINGER, Joel, [James Brydges Willyams] (1772–1820) artist and author, ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756- 1827), etcher

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Los 314 | M'CRINGER, Joel, [James Brydges Willyams] (1772–1820) artist and author, ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756- 1827), etcher
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M'CRINGER, Joel, [James Brydges Willyams] (1772–1820) artist and author, ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756- 1827), etcher

A Compendious Treatise on Modern Education. London: J. Smeeton, 1802.

Exceedingly rare and charming suite of plates satirizing institutional education. OCLC records only four copies in libraries and institutions worldwide, all in the USA: Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Southwestern University. The title-page introduces a set of prints that Rowlandson etched after drawings by James Brydges Willyams, who also supplied the supporting text using the pseudonym Joel McCringer. Rowlandson’s use of delicate linework does not detract from the dark humour that characterizes these compositions, the work arguing that schooling does nothing to educate self-control, knowledge, or empathy. Boys are seen injuring animals in a perverse pursuit of fun, teens are drinking, and young men are carousing and gambling. Many of the images directly respond to the topics explored by Hogarth in his print series Stages of Cruelty and A Modern Midnight Conversation. Bobins II, 717; Falk p.213; Grego II, p.41.



Oblong quarto (270 x 355mm). 8 contemporary hand-coloured etched plates (title page loose, chip to first leaf of letterpress, marginal staining and minor finger-soiling throughout, light offsetting onto letterpress, not obscuring text). Contemporary boards (rebacked, extremities rubbed, front hinge cracking and whole shaken and coming loose); in modern green cloth folder, red morocco gilt label on front cover (rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: Ogden Goelet (1851-1897, American heir, businessman and yachtsman, high society character of the New York Gilded Age; bookplate).





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