28th Sep, 2016 10:00

Printed Books and Manuscripts
 
Lot 256
 
Lot 256 - HUNTER, William Stewart.  Hunter's Ottawa...

HUNTER, William Stewart.  Hunter's Ottawa Scenery, in the vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada. Ottawa City: Wm. Hunter, 1855. 4to (336 x 255mm). Oval tinted lithographed frontispiece, title vignette, folding map, and 13 oval tinted plates lithographed by J. H. Buffords and William Stewart Hunter (some mainly marginal spotting and staining, text lightly browned). Original black cloth, the upper cover with the title within a circle printed in gilt, the borders of both covers decorated in blind (upper cover detached, spine worn with a section lacking, rubbed and stained, corners bumped and frayed). Provenance: from the Collection of the late Hans Fellner. FIRST EDITION. Lande Collection 1861; Sabin 33937. 7 of the views are signed in the plate by John Perry Newall and one by Winslow Homer. The remaining 5 unsigned plates are attributed to Winslow Homer and are thought to be his first book illustrations in the medium of lithography (see Tatham's Winslow Homer and the Printed Book, p.22).

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