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1802

THE | ARABIAN NIGHTS, | IN FIVE VOLUMES, | TRANSLATED | BY | THE REVEREND EDWARD FORSTER. | WITH ENGRAVINGS, FROM PICTURES | BY ROBERT SMIRKE, R.A. | — — | VOL. I [ — V]. | — — | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILTON, | OLD BOND-STREET, | BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, | ST. JAMES'S. 1802. <Bodley>

8°; Parker engraved at least one plate.

The translator remarks that Smirke "has taken the trouble, not only to point out the different engravers, whose talents he thought best suited to the different pictures, but even to attend to the progress of their labours, and with the happiest consequences" (I, vii).

The engravers of the work, including Heath, Fittler, Anker Smith, Neagle, Parker, Warren, Armstrong, and Raimbach, began to meet monthly at one anothers' houses, and from these meetings grew the Society of Engravers.[54]

The "SET OF Engraver's PROOFS PRESENTED TO MR. PARKER by his compeers in this beautiful work" were offered in the Sotheby sale (of Robert Balmanno) 4 — 12 May 1830, Lot 692.

Milton, John. MILTON'S | PARADISE LOST. | A NEW EDITION. | — — | ADORNED WITH PLATES. | — — | VOL. I [II]. | LONDON: | [Gothic:] Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; | FOR F. J. DU ROVERAY. | SOLD BY R. DUTTON, B. CROSBY AND CO. | E. LLOYD, AND J. BELL. | 1802. <GEB>

80; the thirteen plates in the ordinary issue include none by Parker,[55] but the Sotheby catalogue of Rare and Valuable Engravings of A Collector (Robert Balmanno), 4 — 12 May 1830, Lot 689, included "The set of Engravings for Du Roveray's Edition of Milton . . . and an additional plate of great rarity by Parker, after Smirke, for the Penseroso, 'The Story of Cambuscan Bold,' INDIA PROOFS before any letters", which I have never seen.

Rogers, Samuel. THE | PLEASURES | OF | MEMORY, | WITH OTHER | POEMS. | By SAMUEL ROGERS, Esq. | A NEW EDITION. | [Gothic:] London: | PRINTED BY THOMAS BENSLEY, | BOLT-COURT, FLEET-STREET, | FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, | IN THE STRAND, | 1802. <R. N. Essick>

Parker engraved two of the four plates after Stothard, and the same plates appear, much worn, in the edition of 1806 (R. N. Essick). According to A. C. Coxhead, Thomas Stothard, R.A. (1906), 120 — 121, there was an edition of 1801 with fifteen plates, but I have not seen this. James Parker was paid £8.8.0 for "retouching two plates for the poems of Mr Rogers", according to his receipt to Cadell & Davies of 13 July 1803 (in the Free Library of Philadelphia).

Shakspeare, William. THE | DRAMATIC WORKS | OF | SHAKSPEARE. | REVISED | BY GEORGE STEEVENS. | VOL. I [ — IX]. | LONDON: | PRINTED BY W. BULMER AND CO. | [Gothic:] Shakspeare Printing=Office, | FOR JOHN AND JOSIAH BOYDELL, GEORGE AND W. NICOL: | FROM THE TYPES OF W. MARTIN. | MDCCCII [1802, i.e., 1791 — 1803] <GEB et al>

2°; James Parker engraved 11 plates:

• 1 W. Hamilton, "Prospero, Miranda & Ariel" ["Prospero Dismisses Ariel", V],[56] Tempest, I, ii (23 April 1798), good; a proof with Miranda in outline only, a later one before letters "Etched by J. Parker", and the final version "Engraved by Jas Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. VI, at p. 2.

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• 2 H. Fuseli, "A Wood — Puck" ["Puck Descending from his Excursion", XXV], Midsummer-Nights Dream, II, ii (29 Sept 1799), fine; a very early proof marked "Etched by J. Parker" plus the finished versions "Engraved by Ja.s Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XIII, at p. 14.
• 3 R. Westall, "Shylock, Salanio, Antonio & Gaoler" ["Shylock consigning Antonio to Prison", XXVIII], Merchant of Venice, III, iii (1 Dec 1795).
• 4 R. Westall, "A Room of state in the Palace — Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Ross, Lennox, Ghost, &c" ["Banquo appears to Macbeth", XLIV], Macbeth, III, iv (1 Aug 1799).
• 5 Willm Hamilton, "The Coast of Wales, King Richard, Aumerle, Salisbury, Bishop of Carlisle, & Soldiers ["Richard lands in Ireland", XLVIII], Richard II, III, ii (4 June 1800); a proof in outline before letters plus the watercolor are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XXIII.
• 6 R. Westall, "Katherine, Griffith, and Patience" ["Queen Katherine's last Illness", LXX], Henry VIII, IV, 2 [The "Descriptive Index" gives V, 1] (29 Sept 1796) — good;[57] an early proof and an almost finished proof before letters are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>.
• 7 R. K. Porter, "Aufidius and Coriolanus" ["Meeting of Coriolanus", LXXIII], Coriolanus, IV, 5 (4 June 1801); a proof mostly in outline and a more finished version "Etched by J. Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XXXIII, at p. 104.
• 8 R. Westall, "[Marc] Antony and the [dead] Body of Caesar" [LXXIV], Julius Caesar, III, i (21 Dec 1802).
• 9 Rob. [i.e., Richard] Westall, "Imogen in Boy's Clothes entering into the Cave" ["Imogen, disguised, enters Bellario's Cave", LXXXVII], Cymbeline, III, vi (29 Sept 1795); a proof before letters is in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XXXIX.
• 10. R. Smirke, "Juliet and Nurse" [Juliet intreating her Nurse, XCII], Romeo and Juliet, II, v (29 Sept 1797);[58] a proof in outline before letters is in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XLI, at p. 48.
• 11 R. Westall, "Ophelia" ["Ophelia's Death", XCVIII], Hamlet, IV, 7 (23 April 1798), good; two proof states "Etched by J. Parker" are in the Turner Shakespeare <Huntington>, Vol. XLII, at p. 124.

The plates appeared with the Fascicles as they were issued from 1791 onward. Blake also engraved a plate for the edition.

In an undated letter to John Boydell, "J Parker presents his Respects to Mr Alderman Boydell & will be obliged to Mr Harrison if [he] will send by the Bearer a Plate for the W Shakspeare for the Picture [by Westall] representing the Death of Julius Caesar".[59]

The work was reprinted in Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of Shakspeare (?1803) <GEB et al> and The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare (1832) <Folger>.

See 1806 Hume.