[Rarebooks] OFFER: COMIC SEASIDE POETRY/ROWLANDSON COLOR PLATES.

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PAPWORTH, JOHN BUONAROTTI; ROWLANDSON, THOMAS LARKINS: POETICAL SKETCHES OF 
SCARBOROUGH ILLUSTRATED WITH TWENTY-ONE ENGRAVINGS OF HUMOUROUS SUBJECTS, 
coloured from original designs, made upon the spot by J. GREEN, and etched 
by T. ROWLANDSON The Second Edition. London Printed for R. Ackerman, by J. 
Diggens, 1813, Plates watermarked 1813. "[John Buonarotti Papworth 
(1775-1847)] wrote fourteen chapters of the Poetical Sketches of 
Scarborough, a light social satire illustrated with twenty-one attractive 
plates etched by Rowlandson after J. Green, the aquatint being added by J. 
Bluck and J.C. Stadler. The Advertisement states that the originals of the 
plates introduced into this volume were sketches made as souvenirs of the 
place during a visit to Scarborough in the season of 1812. They were not 
intended for publication, but being found to interest many persons of 
taste, several of whom expressed a desire to possess engravings of them; 
and some gentlemen having offered to add metrical illustrations to each the 
present form of publication has been adopted. The several authors were not 
personally acquainted with each other:if this circumstance, and that of 
every design having been made previously to the composition of a single 
couplet, be considered fair ground of extenuation for faults, they claim 
its advantages. As family satire a quarter century before "Punch", and the 
portrait of a sea resort in Jane Austen's day, it is worth looking at 
"Views of Scarborough". The book brings a pleasant jumble of sea-bathing, 
donkey-rides, the promenade, cobblers, the library, baths and shower-baths, 
expeditions and coaching accidents. The plates are very beautifully done, 
and the place nicely reported in a variety of prose and verse and by 
different hands, J. B. Papworth, P. Wrangham and William Combe. The 
initials of the contributors have been added at the end of each chapter for 
the second edition. This copy has the "Shower Bath" plate. The woman in the 
"Warm Bath" plate is Mrs. Robinson, George IV's mistress.  Abbey, Scenery, 
298. Prideaux, pp. 144-145. Tooley 422. Bound in Quarter red calf, probably 
a bit later in the 19th century, red pebbled boards, gilt decorative scroll 
edges, backstrip with 5 false raised bands, fields blindstamped in net 
pattern; raised bands with decorative gilt lines and swirls; Black title 
piece, gilt. A Very Good copy, with just the slightest touch of foxing to 
the Frontispiece and title page, only. $750.00

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