The four additional plates for: Los Proverbios

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828) The four additional plates for: Los Proverbios the complete volume of L'Art, 1877, Vol. II, from the deluxe edition of one hundred copies, published by A. Ballue, Paris & London, 1877, including two sets of Goya's four additional plates, etchings with aquatint, before 1824, one set on laid paper, without watermark, with letters (as described by Harris), and a set of proofs before letters, on thin laid Japan paper, all fine impressions, the full sheets, the set on laid paper bound in with paper guards, the set on Japan paper tipped at the sheet corners onto thin Bristol card, with protective tissue bound in, some minor foxing, otherwise in very good condition; the book containing a number of prints by other hands, including an etching of Goya's Self-Portrait by Félix Augustin Milius (1843-1894), several other prints also as proofs before letters, with title page, text and table of contents, all bound in a brown half-calf binding with marbled boards, generally in good condition (book) 443 x 335 x 60 mm. (overall)