Cosway, Maris — IMITATIONS IN CHALK.
R. Ackermann at his Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand, London 16 Feb - 25th July 1800. 1st Ed. Landscape Folio. 29 x 46.5cm. 36 soft ground plates etched by Maria Cosway. Marginal waterstains intruding onto 11 images, sm. diminishing ink stains to fore-edge upto pp.20, some browning, skilfully rebound in modern half morocco with marbled boards, gilt lettered spine. Scarce. The complete set consists of 36 numbered plates of soft-ground etchings by Maria Cosway after her husband, intended as a drawing book and published in parts of six prints, issued by Ackermann: Daniell 1890 ‘A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Richard Cosway, R.A. (222).’ The parts were issued in blue wrappers, lacking in our copy, and apparently without a title page.