Title: Autograph Letter Signed - 1827 British Landscape Artist Of Illustrated Travel Books Author: Williams, H.[ugh] W.[illiam] Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Date: July 24, 1827 Description: 4pp. including stampless address leaf. To Mr. [George] Cooke, Engraver’s Office, London: “…our Exhibition which opened this month took up every minute of my time. I unfortunately had nothing prepared for it… thank you kindly for the beautiful selection from Claude, it really is quite exquisite and invaluable to me. Your brother’s work too does him infinite honor and I trust it will put thousands in his pockets. The price is reasonable and must ensure an extensive sale. The last number of the River Scenery is very good indeed. I like it better than most of the preceding numbers…I shall have the whole beautifully bound…I shall hope to see the progress you have made in the work of Pompeii and if it is not too much for my purse I may purchase…You ask me the price of my drawings… they are all done for the engravers in numbers, one colour and highly finished and such drawings I could not do for less than eight or ten Guineas…The size of the drawings generally may be about 12-14 16 or 18 inches but no difference in price. I make the drawings to suit the subject. I rejoice to learn that Greece is going on so well… Longman & Co. are going on well, better by much than Hurst & Co. My next number will be out very soon and will eclipse all the rest…The View of Edin. is going on well and in summer when the strangers come to Scotland it will no doubt sell rapidly. Millar…will proceed to my new work soon viz. Elba and unpublished Italy as a companion to France. Greece will be extended to 12 numbers in all. I think business is looking up here…” Scottish watercolor painter Hugh William Williams (1773-1829) was especially celebrated for his views of Greece in the romantic Byron era, though the collapse of his publisher, Hurst & Robinson, left him in financial straits. Ironically, finely-illustrated travel and “view” books with Williams’ landscape plates (like those of prolific engravers George and William Bernard Cooke are now rare and highly-valued on the antiquarian book market. Lot Amendments Condition: Some yellowing and tearing (from original wax seal opening - wax not present) at address leaf; very good. Item number: 235910
Title: Autograph Letter Signed - 1827 British Landscape Artist Of Illustrated Travel Books Author: Williams, H.[ugh] W.[illiam] Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Date: July 24, 1827 Description: 4pp. including stampless address leaf. To Mr. [George] Cooke, Engraver’s Office, London: “…our Exhibition which opened this month took up every minute of my time. I unfortunately had nothing prepared for it… thank you kindly for the beautiful selection from Claude, it really is quite exquisite and invaluable to me. Your brother’s work too does him infinite honor and I trust it will put thousands in his pockets. The price is reasonable and must ensure an extensive sale. The last number of the River Scenery is very good indeed. I like it better than most of the preceding numbers…I shall have the whole beautifully bound…I shall hope to see the progress you have made in the work of Pompeii and if it is not too much for my purse I may purchase…You ask me the price of my drawings… they are all done for the engravers in numbers, one colour and highly finished and such drawings I could not do for less than eight or ten Guineas…The size of the drawings generally may be about 12-14 16 or 18 inches but no difference in price. I make the drawings to suit the subject. I rejoice to learn that Greece is going on so well… Longman & Co. are going on well, better by much than Hurst & Co. My next number will be out very soon and will eclipse all the rest…The View of Edin. is going on well and in summer when the strangers come to Scotland it will no doubt sell rapidly. Millar…will proceed to my new work soon viz. Elba and unpublished Italy as a companion to France. Greece will be extended to 12 numbers in all. I think business is looking up here…” Scottish watercolor painter Hugh William Williams (1773-1829) was especially celebrated for his views of Greece in the romantic Byron era, though the collapse of his publisher, Hurst & Robinson, left him in financial straits. Ironically, finely-illustrated travel and “view” books with Williams’ landscape plates (like those of prolific engravers George and William Bernard Cooke are now rare and highly-valued on the antiquarian book market. Lot Amendments Condition: Some yellowing and tearing (from original wax seal opening - wax not present) at address leaf; very good. Item number: 235910
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