FREDERICK CATHERWOOD (1799-1854) Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. [London: Vizetely Brothers and Co., 1844]. 2 volumes (plate volume including title, text volume including dedication and three-colour lithographed map), broadsheet (plate volume: 54 x 46cm., text: 54 x 36cm.). Letterpress dedication, 24pp. letterpress text. Coloured lithographic mosaic-bordered title by Owen Jones and 26 hand-coloured lithographic plates mounted on thick card leaves, one leaf with two plates, after Catherwood by Andrew Picken Henry Warren William Parrott John C. Bourne, Thomas Shotter Boys and George Belton Moore one map lithographed in three colours. (Occasional light spotting to card mounts of plates, map, dedication leaf and first leaf of introduction spotted.) Plates: card leaves mounted on guards within contemporary green morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (old dampstain to upper cover, some scuffing and discolouration to extremities); text: unbound as issued in contemporary cloth-backed glazed-paper wrappers (lightly soiled). Provenance : Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851, armorial bookplate, manuscript library location and shelf-mark for Knowsley Hall). THE EARL OF DERBY'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, THIS ONE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF THE DELUXE ISSUE ON CARD WITH THE PLATES HAND-COLOURED. John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was inspired by the accounts of the ruins of the ancient Central American civilizations published by Antonio del Rio, Guillaume Dupaix and Frederick de Waldeck between 1822 and 1838. Catherwood, an English artist and architect, accompanied Stephens on two journeys totalling more than 3,000 miles to 44 archaeological sites in Honduras, Guatemala and Yucatan between 1839 and 1841. Stephens published two very successful accounts of the travels in 1841 and 1843 (both 2 volumes, 8°, with plates after Catherwood). This very rare work is Catherwood's selection of the best and most interesting views, transferred to stone by some of the foremost lithographers of their day, and in the case of the deluxe copies reputedly coloured by Catherwood himself. The work was published in both New York (by Barlet and Welford) and London, and priced at 5 guineas for the uncoloured issue and 12 guineas for the coloured issue. The size and format of the text leaves suggests that the purchaser was given the option of having the text bound with the plates. Hill p.47; Palau 50290; Sabin 11520; Tooley 133; Von Hagen Search for the Maya. The Story of Stephens and Catherwood , Farnborough, 1973, pp.320-324. (2)
FREDERICK CATHERWOOD (1799-1854) Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. [London: Vizetely Brothers and Co., 1844]. 2 volumes (plate volume including title, text volume including dedication and three-colour lithographed map), broadsheet (plate volume: 54 x 46cm., text: 54 x 36cm.). Letterpress dedication, 24pp. letterpress text. Coloured lithographic mosaic-bordered title by Owen Jones and 26 hand-coloured lithographic plates mounted on thick card leaves, one leaf with two plates, after Catherwood by Andrew Picken Henry Warren William Parrott John C. Bourne, Thomas Shotter Boys and George Belton Moore one map lithographed in three colours. (Occasional light spotting to card mounts of plates, map, dedication leaf and first leaf of introduction spotted.) Plates: card leaves mounted on guards within contemporary green morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (old dampstain to upper cover, some scuffing and discolouration to extremities); text: unbound as issued in contemporary cloth-backed glazed-paper wrappers (lightly soiled). Provenance : Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851, armorial bookplate, manuscript library location and shelf-mark for Knowsley Hall). THE EARL OF DERBY'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, THIS ONE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF THE DELUXE ISSUE ON CARD WITH THE PLATES HAND-COLOURED. John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was inspired by the accounts of the ruins of the ancient Central American civilizations published by Antonio del Rio, Guillaume Dupaix and Frederick de Waldeck between 1822 and 1838. Catherwood, an English artist and architect, accompanied Stephens on two journeys totalling more than 3,000 miles to 44 archaeological sites in Honduras, Guatemala and Yucatan between 1839 and 1841. Stephens published two very successful accounts of the travels in 1841 and 1843 (both 2 volumes, 8°, with plates after Catherwood). This very rare work is Catherwood's selection of the best and most interesting views, transferred to stone by some of the foremost lithographers of their day, and in the case of the deluxe copies reputedly coloured by Catherwood himself. The work was published in both New York (by Barlet and Welford) and London, and priced at 5 guineas for the uncoloured issue and 12 guineas for the coloured issue. The size and format of the text leaves suggests that the purchaser was given the option of having the text bound with the plates. Hill p.47; Palau 50290; Sabin 11520; Tooley 133; Von Hagen Search for the Maya. The Story of Stephens and Catherwood , Farnborough, 1973, pp.320-324. (2)
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