[Egerton, Michael]. Matrimonial Ladder, or Such Things are ... , London: Pyall & Hunt, published Jany. 1, 1825, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates with Hunt & Pyall imprint to each (complete?), including title-page and tail-piece vignette at rear, each mounted on a guard, some minor dust-soiling and marks, top edges gilt, fore-edges rough-trimmed, close-trimmed to lower edge with partial loss of some imprints, marbled endpapers, Beeleigh Abbey leather bookplate on front pastedown, later 19th century tan half calf, gilt decorated spine rubbed, slight loss to spine ends and upper joint cracked, small 4to (Quantity: 1) Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. Abbey, Life, 292 (note): Originally published in 1825 by Thomas McLean with 23 aquatint plates, the present copy is the - apparently rarer - second edition issued in panoramic form with Pyall & Hunt imprint (ours subsequently rebound). Abbey doesn't mention the number of plates in the second edition, but the only other copies at auction that we can trace had 20 in total like ours (Christie's, 5th June, 2007, lot 226; Parke Bernet, 1944). The additional plates in the McLean edition not present here are 'A Gift for all Seasons' title, the subtitle 'Drawn by M. E. Esqr. ...', and plate 22 'All's Well That Ends Well'. Egerton’s entertaining satirical work on the many stages of marriage - 'Admiration', 'Flirtation', 'Agitation', 'Possession', 'Rumination', 'Detestation', etc., - each with a humorous engraved quatrain beneath the image.
[Egerton, Michael]. Matrimonial Ladder, or Such Things are ... , London: Pyall & Hunt, published Jany. 1, 1825, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates with Hunt & Pyall imprint to each (complete?), including title-page and tail-piece vignette at rear, each mounted on a guard, some minor dust-soiling and marks, top edges gilt, fore-edges rough-trimmed, close-trimmed to lower edge with partial loss of some imprints, marbled endpapers, Beeleigh Abbey leather bookplate on front pastedown, later 19th century tan half calf, gilt decorated spine rubbed, slight loss to spine ends and upper joint cracked, small 4to (Quantity: 1) Provenance: W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey. Abbey, Life, 292 (note): Originally published in 1825 by Thomas McLean with 23 aquatint plates, the present copy is the - apparently rarer - second edition issued in panoramic form with Pyall & Hunt imprint (ours subsequently rebound). Abbey doesn't mention the number of plates in the second edition, but the only other copies at auction that we can trace had 20 in total like ours (Christie's, 5th June, 2007, lot 226; Parke Bernet, 1944). The additional plates in the McLean edition not present here are 'A Gift for all Seasons' title, the subtitle 'Drawn by M. E. Esqr. ...', and plate 22 'All's Well That Ends Well'. Egerton’s entertaining satirical work on the many stages of marriage - 'Admiration', 'Flirtation', 'Agitation', 'Possession', 'Rumination', 'Detestation', etc., - each with a humorous engraved quatrain beneath the image.
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