Author: JAMES DUFFIELD HARDING
Title: Lithographs.
Description: R. Ackermann and Charles Tilt, 1824 - 1837. Oblong folio, 270 x 370 mm. pp. 12, and 22 plates. Contemporary half calf, worn, leather title label. A little slight foxing to the first sequence, heavier on plates 1, 3 and 4. The second sequence on India paper James Duffield Harding (1798 – 4 December 1863) was a British landscape painter, lithographer and author of drawing manuals. Comprising two separate sequences of lithographs. The first, dated 1824 - 5, published by R. Ackermann consists of numbers 1 - 12 [complete set?]: 1. Garsdale, Yorkshire, 2. At Clapham, Yorkshire, 3. At Garthmore, Scotland, 4. Ferry House Tintern, 5. Near Garsdale, 6. At Halifax, 7. Near Sedburgh, 8. Part of Kirkstall Abbey, 9. [untitled coastal scene], 10. Hastings, 11. Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 12. Henley on Thames. I have been unable to identify the publication and it is likely that it was issued as an untitled drawing book without a proper title page. The second sequence, published by Charles Tilt and dated 1837 numbered 1 - 24, lacking 9 and 12 with no sign of them having been included. This work is given various titles [J.D. Harding's Early Drawing Book, or Lithographic Drawing Book for the Year 1837] and appears also to have been issued without a title page.

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