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(Hogarth, William). Lichtenberg, G[eorg] C[hristoph]. WILLIAM HOGARTH'S ZEICHNUNGEN, NACH DEN ORIGINALEN IN STAHL GESTOCHEN ... [WILLIAM HOGARTH'S DRAWINGS ENGRAVED AFTER THE ORIGINALS IN STEEL]. Stuttgart: Rieger'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1854. Large octavo, pp. [1-10] i-xxiv 1-994, engraved frontispiece (portrait of Hogarth) and 92 steel engravings, nineteenth-century three-quarter leather and marbled boards, spine panels stamped in gold, marbled endpapers. New edition in one volume. Lichtenberg's exhaustive study in preceded by a biography by Franz Kottenkamp. Scattered foxing, sometimes heavy, throughout the text volume. A few plates are a bit foxed or tanned, and several are trimmed close to the caption, but overall, most are very clean and the paper is closer to cream than tan. Leather rubbed at edges, but bindings quite sound. A better than average copy. (#160599).

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