Rowlandson (Thomas).- Combe (William) The English Dance of Death [&] The Dance of Life, 3 vol., late
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Rowlandson (Thomas).- Combe (William) The English Dance of Death, 2 vol., 1815-16; The Dance of Life, 1817, together 3 vol., first editions, engraved frontispieces and additional vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 96 plates after Thomas Rowlandson, all hand-coloured aquatints, advertisement leaf at end of vol.3, occasional soiling to plates and light offsetting to text, a fine set in later crushed red morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, t.e.g., others uncut, neatly rebacked preserving old gilt spines (slightly rubbed), [Abbey, Life 263-264; Bobins 1360; Tooley 410-411], 8vo, R. Ackermann
⁂ "Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson". (Tooley).
⁂ "Indispensable to any Rowlandson collection, one of the essential pivots of any colour plate library, being one of the main works of Rowlandson". (Tooley).
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Rowlandson (Thomas).- Combe (William) The English Dance of Death [&] The Dance of Life, 3 vol., late
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