To recreate for the contemporary scholar and art-love, in an unusual visual and textual presentation, the original impact of Hogarth’s satirical picture-story of a fashionable eighteenth-century marriage in London, using a new translation of the brilliant commentary by the German polymath Lichtenberg, together with an introduction, full annotations, a lesser known French commentary on the series, a Hudibrastic poem on the same subject, and relevant extracts from Lichtenberg’s letters.

Designer’s Comments: The large page format dictated by the actual size reproduction of the Hogarth engravings afforded the opportunity of including marginal plate details in text, as a further aid to the reader.

Special Features: Six fold-out plates of Hogarth’s Marriage à la Mode series reproduced in actual size (17.75 x 14.5) from original engravings; full size reproductions of a second set of engravings from originals; reproductions of Hogarth’s paintings from which the engravings were made. Slipcase manufactured by J. Landowne Company.