ID 993042
Lot 50 | [POLLARD, James (1792–1867)]
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
[Epsom. London: Ackermann & Co., 1835-1836, plates with Whatman 1835 or 1837 watermark.]
A magnificently coloured and clean suite of Pollard’s Epsom. Third state with titles and imprints present. Pollard’s Scenes on the Road to Epsom (1838) became its companion piece. Bobins IV, 1402; Mellon/Snelgrove 23, p.134; Siltzer, p.222.
Oblong folio (430 x 596mm). 6 colour-printed hand finished aquatint plates by Charles Hunt after Pollard, heightened with gum arabic, tipped into the album (light marginal finger soiling). Contemporary quarter roan and patterned brown cloth, number ‘12’ impression on upper cover (upper cover evenly sunned on lower and left, extremities lightly rubbed); housed in modern red quarter morocco case, with green morocco and gilt label to upper board (spine rubbed and splitting). Provenance: Joel Spitz (bookplate and stamp; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1942).
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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