Lot 74

Rows (John) [The Rows Rol] This rol was laburd & finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, William Pickering, 1845 [but c.1859]

Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500

Description

Rows (John) [The Rows Rol] This rol was laburd & finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, lithograph title and 33 hand-coloured lithographs heightened with gold and silver, plate-guards, occasional light spotting, original morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, William Pickering, 1845 [but c.1859].

⁂ Scarce. Believed to be one of only 100 copies published, and one of only a handful with hand-coloured plates.

This work was left unfinished following the death of William Pickering in 1854, but was subsequently picked up by Henry G. Bohn who completed and published it.

Description

Rows (John) [The Rows Rol] This rol was laburd & finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk, lithograph title and 33 hand-coloured lithographs heightened with gold and silver, plate-guards, occasional light spotting, original morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, William Pickering, 1845 [but c.1859].

⁂ Scarce. Believed to be one of only 100 copies published, and one of only a handful with hand-coloured plates.

This work was left unfinished following the death of William Pickering in 1854, but was subsequently picked up by Henry G. Bohn who completed and published it.

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