Layard, George Somes.

Suppressed Plates: Wood Engravings etc., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto. Being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. 15 x 21.5cm. Frontispiece, (13), 254 pages, with 34 black and white illustration plates. Original embossed green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and gilt top edges. Some signs of shelf wear to spine and corners, slight lean, front free endpaper foxed, otherwise very good condition. Previous owner’s bookplate affixed to front endpaper.

G.S. Layard explores in this book illustrations that had been censored for various reasons during the Victorian age. In the introduction, the author explains: “No one who has the itch for book-collecting will deny that suppressed book illustrations are, what the forbidden fruit was to our mother Eve, irresistible.″

Contents include for example: The Suppressed Portrait of Dickens / Dickens Cancelled Plates / The Marquis of Steyne / Cancelled Designs for Punch and Once a Week by Charles Keene and Frederick Sandys / Suppressed Plates by George Cruikshank / The Suppressed Omar Khayyam Etching / Hogarth’s “Enthusiasm Delineated” and “Don Quixote”

• Keywords: 19th Century Literature · Art · Book Design · Book Illustrator · Catalogue Four – International Art · censorship · Collecting · Literature
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 91388AB

EUR 120,--