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[HOGARTH, William (1697-1764), artist.] IRELAND, John (??-1808). Hogarth Illustrated [and] A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated; Compled from His Original Manuscripts… London: Published for J. and J. Boydell [and] For the Author… and Messrs. Boydell, 1793, 1798. 8vos. Complete with 136 copper engraved plates (including engraved frontispieces, title-pages and an engraved dedication plate). Illustrations by Barlow, Dent, and Corbould after Hogarth. [vi], cxxii, 223; [iv], 357, [ii], 8; xxiv, 380 pp. Approximately 9 ½ x 6”. Bound in contemporary full brown calf (all volumes rebacked to style in modern brown calf), spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, new endleaves (some wear, restoration to boards, some intermittent soiling, foxing to plates and text, previous owner’s inkstamps or signatures on front blanks “Captn Faskell”, some occasional ink or pencil markings in text, a few plates inserted in landscape format are trimmed a bit close at top). Very good. MIXED EDITIONS, VOLUME 1 AND 2 ARE SECOND EDITIONS (“CORRECTED”), VOLUME 3 IS A FIRST EDITION. William Hogarth’s popular engravings are here provided with “a moral and analytical description,” with a “description of what I conceive the comic and moral tendencies of each.” The most considerable English figure in book illustration of the early eighteenth century, Hogarth (1697-1764) was trained as a silversmith’s engraver, but found his niche as a maker of prints aimed at the common man. His series of engravings, such as “The Harlot’s Progress,” “Marriage a la Mode,” and “The Analysis of Beauty,” were immensely popular in his lifetime and immediately inspired numerous plays and novels, and they continued to be reprinted for many years. As Lamb said of him, “Other pictures we look at--his prints we read.”