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Half Leather & Marbled Boards. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Paginated 153 to 426, Index to vol 9, Racing Cal 25 - 96, vol 10 pages 1 - 136, Racing Cal 1 - 32, Coursing 1 - 8. Offered as a reading/reference copy - all plates except 2, which are very foxed, have been removed. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. All edges marbled. Wear to extremeties of cover. See my other listing for more vols of this publication. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete copy of The Netherlands with all 18 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive period full green morocco gilt, spines decoratively tooled with red morocco gilt lettering label. Light spotting limited to endleaves. Period bookplate of Harriet Tomlin. 12mo.…

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete copy of Switzerland with all 18 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive period full green morocco gilt, spines decoratively tooled with red morocco gilt lettering label. Light spotting limited to endleaves. Period bookplate of Harriet Tomlin. 12mo. …

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete copy of Tibet with all 12 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive period full green morocco gilt, spines decoratively tooled with red morocco gilt lettering label. Light spotting limited to endleaves. Period bookplate of Harriet Tomlin. 12mo. …

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of Asiatic Islands and New Holland in 2 vols with all 26 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive period full green morocco gilt, spines decoratively tooled with red morocco gilt lettering label, vol 1 spine repaired at foot retaining original leather. Light spotting limited to endleaves. Period bookplate of Harriet Tomlin. 12mo.…

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of Spain and Portugal in 2 vols with all 27 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive period full green morocco gilt, spines decoratively tooled with red morocco gilt lettering label. Neat small restoration of leather to head of one spine. Light spotting limited to endleaves. Period bbokplate of Harriet Tomlin. 12mo.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of Austria in 2 vols with all 32 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive and very tidy quarter calf, with raised bands and twin labels, gilt. No inscriptions and no foxing, exceptionally clean and bright.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of Spain and Portugal in 2 vols with all 27 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive and very tidy quarter calf, with raised bands and twin labels, gilt. Previous owner's name in ink to prelims. Free of foxing, exceptionally clean and bright.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of South Sea Islands in 2 vols with all 26 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive and very tidy quarter calf, with raised bands and twin labels, gilt. No inscriptions and no foxing, exceptionally clean and bright.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete with all 18 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive and very tidy quarter calf, with raised bands and twin labels, gilt. No inscriptions and no foxing, exceptionally clean and bright.

Zustand: Good. Large quarto. 28.3 x 34.8cm. Contemporary gilt panelled calf; Original spine rebacked on new goatskin support. 47 hand-coloured aquatint plates, lacking one plate (Eton Scholar). Whatman 1812 or 1813 watermarks, and plates in the earlier states, by Havell, Stadler, Bluck, and others, after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin, and others, 'Charter House, from the Play Ground' with overlaid title label, intermittent offsetting and spotting. armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims and "Manley Sims Eton Collection" ink stamp to title page,:Francis Manley Sims (F.R.C.S.) was a 19th-century physician and surgeon based in London's West End. A dedicated book collector, he is best known to historians for assembling the notable "Manley Sims Collection" of rare books and Etoniana, which he donated to his alma mater, Eton College.Born on June 19th, 1841, at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of the Rev Frederick Sims, Rector of West Bergholt, Essex, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He spent his early life in Suffolk, and was educated at Colchester Grammar School. Shortly before he was 16 he was apprenticed to the then well-known practitioner, Thomas Young, of Sackville Street, W, and soon entered as a student at St George's Hospital. Rising very early - at five o'clock every morning - he studied medicine and modern languages before beginning the work of the day with his principal, and was thus able to carry off all the prizes at his hospital, where he was appointed House Surgeon, and afterwards Demonstrator of Physiology. He started practice in Down Street, Mayfair, and in 1870 joined partnership with William Fuller, of 111 Piccadilly, whose niece he married in 1875. In 1884, on the virtual retirement of William Fuller, he was joined in partnership by H Roxburgh Fuller, of Curzon Street, who remained with him to the end.Manley Sims became a most fashionable physician, with probably the largest West-End practice, and his life was one of tireless labour. As of old he rose very early, and was often on his rounds in his brougham before breakfast. He was seldom in bed after 5.30 am, whatever the duties of the previous night had been, and during the whole of this enormously long working day his powers of close attention, accurate insight, and sympathy remained unabated. It is to his credit that he was very helpful and generous to poor patients, and possessing, as he did, the ear of a wealthy and influential clientele, he could often contrive a scheme of assistance in cases of sickness and misery that was practical besides being well meant. To do so was the greatest possible source of pleasure to him. He was a firm and generous friend, an interesting companion, full of reminiscences and experiences, and well read.Abbey, Scenery, no. 440. …

A lovely clean copy of this scarce set of unusual views of the Crystal Palace which hosted The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851. With an additional hand-coloured lithograph by Augustus Butler and published by Stannard and Dixon titled 'Interior of the Crystal Palace', and woodblock of a Chinese costume exhibited in 1851. Abbey erroneously states that the first three views are displayed in the title. In fact the title is the first listed and there are six further individual lithographs, as delineated in the letterpress. Rare, only 1 UK institutional copy (University of Reading) and not in the BL or V&A. First edition; folio (56.4 x 44.5 cm); complete with 7 stone-tinted lithographs including title page and letterpress leaf, extra illustrated with hand-coloured view of the interior of Crystal palace, and a woodblock showing one of the Chinese costumes exhibited in 1851, endpapers a little torn; original cloth backed printed boards, rebacked with remains of spine preserved, very good. Abbey Scenery 244. …

This is a splendid work, with the preferred pre-publication watermarks, exhibiting a depth and richness of colouring. The Microcosm offers an incomparable panorama of Regency London both high and low, from sedate drawing rooms to the brawling and boozing street life of the metropolis, captured in matchless hand-coloured aquatint by the inspired pairing of Pugin and Rowlandson. Most of the plates are in their first or second state, with plate 12 and 39 in the rare first state. With an autograph letter by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), pioneer of the Gothic Revival architecture movement, to, probably, Thomas Talbot Bury (1809-1877), his long time friend and collaborator, dated 1839. The letter describes a drawing Pugin made of Macclesfield Church (St Michael and All Angels), including directions to Bury for his engraving of the image, and is adorned with small sketches of the altar candles and statues. It was Augustus Welby's father, Augustus Charles, who produced the architectural drawings of this work and was the reason Augustus Welby and Bury were so intimate, having apprenticed his son and Bury together. 'Ackermann's The Microcosm of London. is a book of major importance. The architectural drawings were by Augustus Charles Pugin, a French refugee who came to London in about 1798, "driven from his country either by the horrors of the French Revolution or by private reasons connected with a duel" [.] His lasting fame rests on his consummate ability as an architectural draughtsman. By a stroke of genius Ackermann engaged Thomas Rowlandson to add human figures to the drawings that Pugin made for The Microcosm, so that the stately, accurate and dignified qualities of that artist are enlivened by the vitality and charm of Regency life as depicted by one of the most vigorous draughtsmen of all time. To turn the leaves of The Microcosm is to take a walk though London at a singularly fortunate moment, observing, as we never can in real life, the scenes of many celebrated incidents in English literature and history: the India House of Charles Lamb, the King's Bench Prison of Dickens, the Foundling Hospital of Captain Coram and Hogarth, the Guildhall bombed by the Luftwaffe, the Newgate of Harrison Ainsworth, the Carlton House of the Prince Regent and so forth.' (Thomas, Great Books and Book Collectors, 1975, p. 155) First edition, early issue, with ALS loosely tipped to first blank; 3 vols, large 4to (34 x 28 cm); letter from Augustus Welby Pugin to T. Bury dated 1839, restored and laid on linen, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedications, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck, Stadler and others after Pugin and Rowlandson, watermarks 1806-1808, bookplate to pastedown; twentieth-century half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt ruled cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, a fine set. Provenance: Henry S Van Dvzer (bookplate). Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7; Prideaux pp121-4. Franklin 49-54.…

A rare collection of a coloured set of hunting and racing scenes, sixteen of which drawn by the eminent Henry Alken (1785-1851). Despite the title label saying 'Alken's Sporting Scraps' the plates and bibliography state these as Ackermann's Sporting Scraps. Each of the prints has a consistent running title of 'R. Ackermann's Hunting Scraps', 'Ackermann's Coaching Scraps' etc., with an individual title below the image. Hunting Scraps, 4 numbered plates after H. Alken (Drawing Cover; Gone Away; Full Cry; The Death), 13 March 1861. Steeple Chase Scraps, 4 numbered plates after H. Alken (Getting away. Now for the front; The Brook; The Stone wall and double fence; The Last Struggle), 20 February 1850. Coaching Scraps. 4 numbered plates after W. J. Shayer (The Wet Morning; Springing 'em; The Rivals; The Time Keeper), 20 March 1854. Racing Scraps, 4 numbered plates after H. Alken (Training; Preparing to Start; Started; The Race), 27 April 1850. Shooting Scraps, 4 numbered plates after H. Alken (Going Out; The Point; The Shot; Down Charge), 10 June 1850. First collected edition; landscape 4to (22.5 x 28.5 cm); 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, heightened with gum arabic, by J. Harris after H. Alken and W. J. Shayer, bookplate to front free endpaper, light spotting mostly to margins; fine full green crushed morocco by J. Larkins, boards double ruled in gilt with gilt floral corner pieces, board edges ruled in gilt, spine gilt in six compartments, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, crushed red morocco title label to front pastedown in gilt, a little light rubbing to extremities. Provenance: Ward family (bookplate). Siltzer p67 (only Hunting, Steeple Chasing, and Racing); not in Abbey or Tooley.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of Turkey in 6 vols with all 73 colour plates as issued. Bound in attractive and very tidy quarter calf, with raised bands and twin labels, gilt. No inscriptions and no foxing, exceptionally clean and bright.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition. Complete set of Persia costumes in 3 volumes with all 30 colour plates as issued (including 3 frontispieces). Bound in attractive and very tidy quarter calf, with raised bands and twin labels, gilt. No inscriptions and no foxing, exceptionally clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 40 volumes octavo 9 1/2 x 6 inches, handsomely leather bound in later half red morocco, all edges gilt, some slight sun fading. Bound from the parts, some occasional trimming or tightly bound plates plus very occasional toning or offsetting but consistent with such a long 20 year periodical. Illustrated with the 1491 engraved plates (mostly hand coloured) as called for by the monthly plate lists and the two bibliographies Abbey and Tooley (plus the anomalies listed therein). An awkward collation which sometimes varies slightly. The three series as follows - FIRST SERIES January 1809 to December 1815, 14 volumes each with a copper engraved title, includes 63 woodcuts containing 2 or more fabric or paper swatches- and with all the anomalies listed in the bibliographies Abbey and Tooley - particularly the Penitentiary plate and the unlisted plate of needlework in volume 7 are present. Plus 24 leaves of advertisements at the end of volume 14 - not mentioned in the bibliographies. SECOND SERIES January 1816- December 1822, 14 volumes each with a wood engraved title and 4 samples similar to swatches. Includes the unlisted bank note and a bis plate. THIRD SERIES Jan 1823- Dec 1828, 12 volumes each with an engraved title (with various decorative arts related cartouches). Each of the 240 months include 2 hand coloured fashion plates (occasionally just hats) so 480 hand coloured fashion plates. A VERY GOOD, CAREFULLY COLLATED, SET. Provenance: Gother Mann (1747-1830), army officer and military engineer; his ownership inscriptions on titles of the first 10 volumes, and possibly his annotations on a few plates. First edition of Ackermann's influential, authoritative publication on taste and fashion: an extraordinarily ambitious project providing a contemporary pictorial record of social life in early nineteenth-century Europe, and one of Britain's earliest publications to use lithography. Issued in parts, each volume is devoted to series that include ladies' fashion, new developments in furniture designs or architecture, views of London emporiums and English country houses, foreign views of cities and countries, and, in the early issues, allegorical woodcuts with actual samples of British-made textiles and papers used in fashion and decoration. As a result of having been preserved in book form, these samples remain as fresh and unfaded as when they were first produced. The first series (until 1815) is an extraordinary document of the Napoleonic wars and French cultural influence on fashion and style in Regency England. The Repository also depicts for the first time in a magazine for the general public technological advances such as gas lamps, steamboats, and an early version of a bicycle. The illustrations provided Ackermann with much material which he republished in various subsequent works. John Buonarotti Papworth's Select views of London (1816), Rural residences (1818), and Picturesque tour form Geneva to Milan (1820), for example, all appeared for the first time in the Repository. Bibliographies- Abbey Life 212;Tooley pp.25-47.…

FIRST EDITION. 40 vols. 8vo (22.4 x 14 cm.). Twentieth-century half tan calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt ruling, red and black morocco labels, marbled edges, some dyed yellow. 1486 plates, plus an additional 9 "bis" plates and 2 not in Abbey, giving a total of 1497 of which 1172 are hand-coloured the remainder being monochrome (needlwork patterns etc.) as usual.* Including aquatints and lithographs, fashion plates, furniture designs, country seats, allegorical woodcut plates with mounted fabric samples, designs for playing-cards. The rare folding plate of "The Female Penitentiary" can be found at the beginning of May 1812 in Vol. 7, 1st Series. Likewise, a pattern of needlework is found at the end of this section. Tooley notes that these plates are not described in the contents for this month and can only "sometimes" be found in this volume. Abbey counts the needlework as a standard plate, but does not call for "The Female Penitentiary". A needlework pattern is also found at the end of September 1813 in Vol. 10, 1st Series. It is listed in the volume's contents for the month. Tooley states it was "never issued", yet is present in this volume. It is likewise not found in Abbey. Inscription of "JN Walker Crow Nest" to contents page for January, Vol. 1, 1st Series, possibly John Walker of the Crow Nest estate in Yorkshire. His daughter, Ann Walker, would begin a relationship with Anne Lister and move to Shibden Hall in 1834. Vol. 12, 2nd Series, inscription to contents page for July, "JW Davys". Some minor foxing and browning to engraved titles, minor damp staining to engraved titles of Vol. 12, 3rd Series and in Vol. 10, 1st Series, some offsetting of "Allegorical Woodcuts" and colour illustrations, some plates shaved, occasionally affecting caption, 3 loose leaves in Vol. 9, 2nd Series, occasional spotting to edges, generally an excellent set. First edition of Ackermann's influential, authoritative publication on taste and fashion: an extraordinarily ambitious project providing a contemporary pictorial record of social life in early nineteenth-century Europe, and one of Britain's earliest publications to use lithography. Issued in parts, each volume is devoted to series that include ladies' fashion, new developments in furniture designs or architecture, views of London emporiums and English country houses, foreign views of cities and countries, and, in the early issues, allegorical woodcuts with actual samples of British-made textiles and papers used in fashion and decoration. As a result of having been preserved in book form, these samples remain as fresh and unfaded as when they were first produced. The first series (until 1815) is an extraordinary document of the Napoleonic wars and French cultural influence on fashion and style in Regency England. The Repository also depicts for the first time in a magazine for the general public technological advances such as gas lamps, steamboats, and an early version of a bicycle. The illustrations provided Ackermann with much material which he republished in various subsequent works. John Buonarotti Papworth's Select views of London (1816), Rural residences (1818), and Picturesque tour form Geneva to Milan (1820), for example, all appeared for the first time in the Repository. *Abbey numbers 1491 plates, but this number does not reflect the additional 11 "bis" plates which are marked with letters, e.g. 977 and 977a. Being a periodical published over 19 years the plate count for complete sets does tend to vary slightly. This set has been carefully collated against the contents for each month and against both Abbey and Tooley as follows. Plate 641, "Sample of Ackermann's Lithography" here showing a lithograph of a church, whereas Abbey featured a seascape and Tooley a castle. -Vol. 1, 1st Series. Abbey calls for 2 illustrated ads. in May. These are missing, but Tooley notes "the volume can be considered complete without them". -Vols. 8, 9 and 11, 2nd Series. Tooley calls only for the sample in Vol. 8, which is present. Abbey calls for 3 samples of Urling's lace, one per volume. The samples in Vols. 9 and 11 are missing. All 63 "Allegorical Woodcuts" containing 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 samples of other fabrics or papers are present across the 40 vols. -Vol 14, 1st Series. Tooley states Tyburn Turnpike plate is additional but this is not so, as seen by directions to Binder at p.4 of Index. Abbey calls for supplement at end of the vol., but Tooley does not. Supplement is not present at end of this vol. -Vol. 8, 2nd Series. Abbey calls for 3 lithographs of bank notes. Notes for Whitby Old Bank and Deal Bank are present, the plate for the "Provincial Bank" note is missing. A plain grey paper is missing, but this is not called for by Tooley. -Vol. 2, 3rd Series. In the volume's contents two final plates are listed as a single plate. Abbey calls for a plate titled "Self-Importance". This is missing, its companion plate, "Philosophy" is present. [Abbey, Life 212; Tooley 8; ODNB].…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes, 4to (13 x 10 1/2 in.; 33 x 26.7 cm). Half-titles, 6-page list of subscribers, uncolored stipple-engraved portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 handcolored aquatint plates (some with 2 views per plate) after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others (4 plates in vol. 1 and 6 plates in vol. 2 all in Tooley's second state), 17 costume plates by Agar after Unwins; offsetting of plates to text throughout. Contemporary black straight-grained morocco, each cover elaborately decorated in gilt after the design for a wrought-iron college gate, border of a Greek key blind roll and small joined gilt loops, edges gilt; upper right corner of vol. 1 bumped, and upper joint of vol. 1 rubbed, a few nicks to board edges, hinges strengthened. (64F21F) FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE without the 33 Founders plates. Originally published in 20 monthly parts, this is an early issue with the plates watermarked 1812. Ackermann's reputation as the publisher of colorplate books of the highest quality was established with the publication of "The Microcosm of London" (1808-1810). REFERENCES: Abbey, Scenery 278; Tooley 5.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. xviii, [2]plate list, 330, [6]index; 2 p.l., 275, [4]index. complete with list of subscribers & half-titles wanting. 1 engraved plan, 1 engraved portrait, 1 hand-coloured line engraving, & 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates (incl. frontis. & title) by J.Bluck, J.Hamble, T.Sutherland, & others after A.Pugin, F.Mackenzie, H.Villiers, T.Uwins, &c. contemporary calf, rebacked with gilt spines mounted, all edges gilt (spine ends & joints rubbed, plates offset, scattered foxing - generally light & occasional light embrowning). First Edition, First Issue. Tooley 2. Abbey, Scenery, 213. Prideaux p. 331.…

BM 13489. Landscape. On a piece of wove paper, roughly 215 x 305 mm. Good, on heavily-aged paper and with strip of blue paper mount adhering to the blank reverse. The title 'BERNADOTTE' is at the head, and the publication details and caption at the foot. Shows Bernadotte in martial pose and uniform, riding his white horse over a fearsome serpent. He wears a sash on which are written the words 'Leipsic' and 'Victory'. The caption reads 'Round the head is a wreath of Laurel, which alludes to the brilliant Victories gain'd over the Scourge of the World, the Epaulette head of a lion the Star is formed Of the Trophies taken from the Tyrant, the Thigh is a figure of Liberty holding in Chains the Fiend Slavery, the Sheild the Swedish Cross, with the Sun Shining on the allies who are represented on the Shield, the Horse is in the act of Trampling on a Serpent alluding to the Fallen State of Buonaparte.' A companion piece to the Ackermann/Heath engraving 'BUONAPARTE', BM 12195 (offered separately), and to another portrait, of Alexander I of Russia (not in the British Museum). See Image. …

Landscape. On a piece of wove paper. Originally a rectangle roughly 240 x 340 mm, but with an arc cut away beginning in the top left-hand corner and ending at bottom right. This loss has no effect on the text, and only the merest effect on the image, only trimming the outer edge of some very lightly-painted clouds. Apart from this good, on lightly spotted paper, with a thin strip from blue paper mount adhering to the blank reverse. Depicts a ghoulish Bonaparte, with a snake wrapped round his body, a sword of power in his withered hand, and a murderous crown, riding a winged horse of death across the globe. The title 'BUONAPARTE' is at the head, and the publication details and caption at the foot. Caption reads 'The Horse represents Ambition leading on the Fiend, whose body is encompassd. by an Enormous Serpent, the wither'd hand and Arm grasping the broken Sword alludes to The Feeble effort made by Buonaparte to oppose the Conquering arms of the Allies. A Crown Encircles his brows formd of Daggers and Poison Cups alludes to murdering his own Soldiers The Thighs are formd of the Skeletons of the Massacred hosts, the boot a Deamon his guardian Genius'. A companion piece to the Ackermann/Heath engraving 'BERNADOTTE', BM 13489 (offered separately), and to another portrait, of Alexander I of Russia (not in the British Museum).…

Both items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight rust spotting. Manuscript: 12pp, 4to. On twelve leaves, paginated 1-12. With emendations and corrections. Note at head of page: 'Dates & title meant to be typical only: subject to revision from collection catalogue etc & to fit later details of book.' Also at head of page, in red pencil: 'Aquatint collection draft first chapter'. Manuscript: 9pp., 4to. On nine leaves attached with stud (last leaf loose). The piece begins: 'The first book containing coloured aquatint illustrations published by the man who made such volumes popular is The Microcosm of London. It came from the Repository of Arts, at 101 Strand: the bookseller-publishers of that day were fond of large-sounding titles for their domed libraries, like the Temple of the Muses or the Juvenile Repository. No. 101 Strand was kept by a very enterprising Saxon, Rudolph Ackermann, who since his arrival in London in the 'nineties of the eighteenth century had been a skilled coach-designer, the proprietor of a drawing school, and a printseller.' While there is no indication of the book of which this was the intended first chapter, nor any record of its publication, it is likely to have been published in some form: Darton's literary output was voluminous, as his entry in the Oxford DNB indicates.…

Zustand: Good. Collection of 11 colour aquatints. 12 x 19 to 13.5 x 22.4 cm. 3 smaller ones mounted on board. From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Reference: John Roland Abbey Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1770-1860: Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army Panoramas, etc., From the Library of J. R. Abbey. The Curwen Press, Ltd., 1953, cat. no. 266.21 (Second Tour), p. 228. …

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collation, xviii,146pp, 185pp, 32 coloured plates, complete as listed. Bound in later cloth, with leather title labels. Cloth lightly rubbed, slightly faded. Both volumes in good clean firm condition. Internally, light offsetting opposite plates. Pages and plates in good clean condition. A very nice clean set. …

1st Edition. First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz, 1 map. xiv, [2], [1]-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio (13 1/4 x 11 in.). One of Ackermann's most breathtaking color plate books - these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie, pp. 107-8, 312; Prideaux, p. 337; Tooley (1954), # 234 Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked, corners somewhat rubbed, offsetting from plates and text, very good, attractive copy 24 hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz, 1 map. xiv, [2], [1]-178 pp. 1 vols. Folio (13 1/4 x 11 in.) First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered.…

First edition, two volumes, 4to. 115 plates - a portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand coloured aquatints and 17 hand coloured engravings of the various gowns plus the 33 Founders plates, all in excellent condition. Frontispiece and one further plate plus the text in volume I, with the bulk of the plates and the plate list bound in volume II. Handsomely bound in 20th century brown crushed half morocco, t.e.g., faint rubbing to the spines otherwise a handsome set. A well preserved collection of perhaps the most beautiful illustrations printed of the city; Ackermann utilising some of the finest artists of the day - men such as Pugin, Westall and Nash - to make the drawings. Abbey, Scenery, 278-80. Tooley 5. Of the points noted by the above two bibliographies, four plates are in the earlier state. The plate list is in its second state, including the Founders' plates.…