COOKE, Edward William. Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft, Drawn and Etched by E. W. Cooke. London, [printed for the artist], 1829 [1831].
Folio. Publisher's maroon cloth; expertly recased, retaining most of the original spine; spine lettered in gilt; boards ornamented in blind, with fillets in blind; unpaginated; with 65 copper-engraved plates; a list of plates, and additional plates, at the end of the volume; light bumping to corners; rebacked with new endpapers; mostly light spotting; a good copy of this rare collection of Cooke's marine drawings.
First edition. 'E. W. Cooke was a marine artist and gardener, and received artistic training in the studios of his father, uncle, and family friends, during which he became deeply versed in works of the early nineteenth-century landscapists. He published Fifty Plates of Shipping and Craft (1829), Twelve Plates of Coast Sketches: Brighton (1830), and The British Coast (1831), all of which were republished together in 1831 as Sixty-Five Plates of Shipping and Craft but bearing the date of 1829. In 1833 he and his father produced Views of the Old and the New London Bridges, twelve plates from his drawings of the subjects. His father's London and its Vicinity (1826–34) was engraved from watercolours by Augustus Callcott, J. S. Cotman, Stanfield, and Samuel Prout, all based on outline drawings made by the younger Cooke to relieve them of the preliminary labour' (ODNB).
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