The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo Illustrated with Sixty-eight Plates by Joseph Grego (Many in colour)

The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo With an Introduction by Lord Howard De Walden and Notes and Memoir by H. Lavers Smith, B.A. Illustrated with Sixty-eight Plates reproduced from Originals in The Collection of Joseph Grego. In Two Volumes. First Edition. Limited Edition of 1000 copies.

Author: Angelo, Henry

Artists (after): Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Cruikshank, G. Romney, J. Gillray, F. Bartolozzi, J.R. Smith, J. Downman, R. Cosway, T. Rowlandson, George Morland, and other famous artists of the times.

4to.(8" x 11") 1904. Angelo, Henry. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co. and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Full red publisher's cloth with gilt vignette towards foot of a man and a woman fencing, with crossed swords. Spine with gilt title to head, gilt vol# below, gilt "illustrated" to center and gilt publisher at foot. Top edge gilt. Covers and spine with some discoloration (see pic), corners bumped, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, slight fraying to the foot of vol II. Fore-edge of upper cover to vol II evidently dented. Extra Illustrated with 68 illustrations, mezzotint and photogravure, many of them colored. Attestation page states "This Edition is limited to 1,000 copies for England and the United States." Title page in black and red. A pair of pretty books with gorgeous plates inside. Original solicitation form for this set from Bookseller W.A. Butterfield of 59 Bromfield St., Boston laid in.

From Wiki: Henry Charles William Angelo (1756–1835) was an English memoirist and fencing master, as a member of the Angelo family of fencers and son of the Italian master, Domenico Angelo. As the leader of his father's Angelo School of Arms from 1780 to 1817, he consolidated its status among London's high society, with upper class patronage and a cult of celebrity. He also maintained his family's reputation, reissuing his father's seminal fencing manual and composing several memoirs and a single work on fencing, himself. In his retirement, Angelo was a memoirist and, like his father, a writer on fencing. In 1817, he reissued his father's School of Fencing, under the title A Treatise on the Utility and Advantages of Fencing, with a biography of his friend, the composer and fencer Chevalier de Saint-Georges, appended. He reminisced of his life in London's high society in two memoirs: The Reminiscences of Henry Angelo (1828) and Angelo's Pic Nic; or, Table Talk (1834).

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