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Engraved t.p. partly in script, signed: Tomkins, script.; Halliwell sculpt.
A descriptive index and alphabetical list of the plates are prefixed. More than half the plates, which are dated 1791-1803, are by R. Smirke, W. Hamilton, R. Westall, F. Wheatley, and James Northcote, with a few each by Reynolds, Opie, Stothard, Fuseli and others. Among the engravers who contributed the most work are James Parker, Anker Smith, Louis Schiavonetti and James Health.
On p. [4]: Advertisement. Portrait of the late John Boydell ...; speculated imprint date based on his death date.
The ninety-fifth plate is William Blake's variation of Opie's painting of the supposed death of Juliet.
Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 437
Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.
The type-set text in Victoria University Library copy is watermarked 1812 / W Balston, with a intermixture of J Whatman / 1801.
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