Hogarth Illustrated Second Edition 1884

Series of full-page copper plate etchings after Hogarth, with commentary by John Ireland, includes frontispiece etching with tissue-guard; Analysis of Beauty, The Rake’s Progress (8 plates), Southwark Fair, The Harlot’s Progress (6 plates), The Distress’d Poet, The Enraged Musician, Industry and Idleness (12 plates), and many more; text block untrimmed; foxing and offset from plates throughout (sometimes heavy), med-heavy foxing to prelims, o.w. Good; boards fairly heavily rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine, title label to spine mostly gone.