Vol. 1: A | BIBLIOGRAPHICAL | Antiquarian and Picturesque | TOUR | IN THE | NORTHERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND | AND IN | SCOTLAND. | BY THE REVEREND | THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D. | CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY. | VOL. I. |{device} motto: DEI OMNIA PLENA | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE : | AND SOLD BY JAMES BOHN, 12 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, LONDON : | LAING AND FORBES, EDINBURGH : JOHN SMITH AND SON, | GLASGOW : AND E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE. | MDCCCXXXVIII.||
Pagination: ffl, frontispiece by W. Douglas after T. M. Richardson, [i-ii] t.p. / blank; [iii-iv] - dedication to
Frances Mary Richardson Currer (British, 1785 – 1861) / blank, [v] vi-xv – preface, [i] ii-xxx – supplement & index, [2] – corrections / colophon, [2] list of plates, [2] – contents, [1] 2-436, bfl; 11 plates extraneous to collation (incl. frontis.), lacking one plate (facing p. 213. “Thos. Bridges…”), in-text woodcut vignettes, head- and tailpieces.
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Vol. 2: Similar title but "VOL. II."
Pagination: ffl, frontispiece portrait of Hugh Stewart, Aged 84 by Robert Bell after Alison (nothing known); [2] – t.p. / blank, [2] – contents / cont., [437-8] f.t. / blank [439] 440-1090, bfl; 453/4 misprinted 449/50; lacking list of subscribers.
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Binding: By J. Leighton, Brewer Street. Later half dark brown morocco over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt fillets, gilt titling and fillets in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Edition: 1st edition of Dibdin’s last major work and the only edition of this title.
Size: 24.5 x 15.5 cm
Provenance:
Lord Ronald Gower (British, 1845 – 1916);
Frank Hird (British, 1873 – 1937).
Catalogue raisonné: Jackson 89; Windle & Pippin A65, pp. 179–188 [
LIB-2669.2021].
Artists:
Abraham, [I.] Frederic Henry (British, 1790 – 1845)
Carmichael, James John Wilson (British, 1800 – 1868)
Geikie, Walter (British, 1795 – 1837)
Harraden, Richard Bankes (British, 1778 – 1862)
Hill, David Octavius (British, 1802 –1870)
McLea, John Watson (British, fl.1832-1861)
Nixon, James Henry (British, b. c. 1808)
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (British, 1723 – 1792)
Richardson, Thomas Miles (British, 1784 – 1848)
Scott, J. (British, fl. 19th c.)
Wilkinson, T. M. (British, fl. 19th c.)
Engravers:
Aikman, Alison [spouse of George Aikman?] (British, 1788 – 1865)
Bell, Robert Charles (British, 1806 – 1872)
Byfield, Mary (British, 1794/5 – 1871)
Douglas, William (British, 1780 – 1832)
Harraden, F. (British, fl. 1838)
Horsburgh, John (British, 1791 –1869)
Johnstone, John (British, fl. 1835 – )
Leith & Smith, Lithog
rs (Edinburgh)
Lizars, William Home (British, 1788 – 1859)
Miller, William (British, 1796 – 1882)
Penny, William (British, fl. 19th c.)
Prior, Thomas Abiel (British, 1809 – 1886)
Robinson, H. (British, fl. 19th c.)
Smith, Charles John (British, 1803 – 1838)
Thomson, James (British, 1788 – 1850)
Surprisingly, there is only limited information about Michel Hoyer in Spanish Wikipedia; other language versions of his biography do not exist. Another author mentioned in the book is some anonymous Augustinian from Cologne.
Regarding the illustrations. In our copy, the frontispiece is missing. It was probably ripped off by some unscrupulous seller of antique prints.
The image on the missing frontispiece is this:
The names of the artists engraved in the bottom of the stone: E. Quellinus, delin. to the left and P. de Jode, fecit. to the right. We can infer that the other illustrations in that book are produced by the same duo. The image represents three cherubs: one with Athena's serpent in his left hand and a cardinal's hat in his right hand; another in Athen's helmet on his head and her owl beside his feet, with the staff of Mercurius (serpent-twined staff adorned with a winged hat) in his left hand, and the House of Chigi - Della Rovere coat of arms in his right hand; the third cherub depicted with the Hercules attributes - lion pelt and a club.
Regarding the publisher. Henricum Aertssens or Hendrik Aertssen, 1586-1658. Besides the other books, he published PIA DESIDERIA by Herman Hugo in 1636 [1621 french edition by Jean Cnobbartin in Antwerp in his collection LIB-1657.2018]. According to Nina Lamal [2], nothing is known about career of this publisher, besides what's said in Adresboek van zeventiende-eeuwse drukkers, uitgevers en boekverkopers in Vlaanderen / Directory of seventeenth-century Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in Flanders / Vlieger-De Wilde, Koen De (editor). The list of his publications can be seen here.
Other artists who turned to the figure of Blessed Giovanni Chigi were Abraham van Diepenbeeck (painter) and Conrad Lauwers (engraver). The print is in Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.
Here we see a more complex composition but with a clear reference to the work of Quellinus and de Jode: The cherub in Athena's helmet takes away the old coat of arms of the Chigi, and the other cherub points out to the new one, with papal symbols of St. Peter's keys, another cherub carries the papal tiara. Rijksmuseum dates the image as 1642 - 1685; most probably it is ca. 1655, when Fabio Chigi became Pope Alexander VII, and propaganda was focused on promoting his outstanding ancestor Giovanni, who died 300 years before. Giovanni Chigi is depicted here resurrected, accompanied by the archangel, and receiving the blessing from Jesus on the cross.
1 - Michael J. Walsh. A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West, p. 308.
2 - Nina Lamal. Publishing military books in the Low Countries and in Italy in the early seventeenth century in 'Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World', ed. Richard Kirwan, Sophia Mullins, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015, pp. 232-233.
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