Great Britain Hours of business: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 5 Our primary address is our Bloomsbury shop: Stock Code: 205870 Members of: Antiquarian Booksellers Association Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Lionel Foster, collector of Nelsonian and other maritime materials some of which are now at Greenwich. Crisp (1851-1922), genealogist and owner of a private press, whose library was sold at Sotheby's in 4 parts in 1922, 1923, and 1935 ownership inscription in ink(!) on half-title of R. Provenance: William Harry Vane Milbank (1848-1892) was educated at Eton and served in the Royal Horse Guards, latterly acting as a JP in North Yorkshire where he was born. The plates after Monsiau give a certain 18eme charm to the somewhat rough scenes depicted. The French critic Freron wrote: 'le poissard peint la nature, basse si l’on veut aux regards dédaigneux d’une certaine dignité philosophique, mais très agréable, quoi qu’en disent les délicats'. He was born in 1719 dying after a fairly rackety life in 1757. The 'poissard' genre of literature, named after the fish wives of Les Halles the erstwhile great market in Paris, well known for its louche haunts, was popular in the second half of the 18th century and Vadé is the best known exponent of the genre. ONE OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES of an edition limited to 300. Paris: chez Defer de Maisonneuve, de l'imprimerie Didot le jeune, 1900 by Petit, gilt panel on covers with fleurons within a triple gilt fillet, spine gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt arms on covers of William Harry Vane Milbank 4to (335 x 240mm.) 6,, 167p., 4 colour-printed plates, French red morocco c.
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