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Zustand: Fair. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). Vochtplekje bovenzijde.

Blue Cloth Boards. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Complete collection of the panoramic townscapes produced by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck as they travelled the length and breadth of England and Wales between 1728 and 1753, showing the major towns as they were before the Industrial Revolution. 224pp with index, illustrated throughout in black and white. Silver lettering to spine. Boards slightly bowed and foxing to top edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped wrapper has been folded 1/2" away from the original folds and has minor foxing, else very good. VERY HEAVY BOOK, additional postage will be required. Size: 11.5" Tall x 12.5" Wide. Book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: [240]p.: 130ill.; 29cm x 36cm. Notes: Index. Subjects: Great Britain Description and travel. Great Britain atlas. Genres: Illustrated. 4 Kg.

Zustand: Good. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). 1st Edition. VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: A Prospect of Britain. The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck by Ralph Hyde Summary: Every year, from 1728 to 1753, the brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck travelled the length and breadth of England and Wales, producing a series of panoramic views of cities and towns, such as St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge. The works often included ancillary details, from grazing sheep to figures of drunken sailors and picnicking gentry. This book features a number of their works, and also surveys their lives and working methods, their techniques of advertising, engraving and selling their prospects, and also provides descriptions of each subject. Author: Ralph Hyde Publisher: Pavilion Books Limited. London Year Published: 1994 Edition: Original Binding type: Hardcover ISBN: 1857931424 Dimensions: 29cm x 30.5cm Notes: Please note this is a heavy book and may require extra postage if sent outside of the UK. Please ask for quote to your destination. SKU: VSS / 264 / H / 7223 / 5541 Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Handling marks, marks, creasing Book condition: Good. Handling marks, marks, toning Binding: Intact Pages: 224 pages.

Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's bookplate. Physical description; 224 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 x 37 cm. Subject; Buck, Samuel 1696-1779. Engraving, English 18th century. Prints Great Britain 18th century. 4 Kg.

Softcover. Zustand: As New. Facsimile Edition. This is a modern High Quality facsimile reprint of one of Sam & Nathaniel BuckÂ's Perspective Views. It is in As New condition. The image itself is sized 245 x 785 mm on paper sized approx 285 x 825 mm. It will be promptly posted to you in a stout tube. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 460 x 875 mm. Item Type: Antique Print. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Lithos & Prints; Britain/UK; 18th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50404.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Size: 285 x 825 mm approx. This is a modern 2016 High Quality facsimile colour reprint of one of Sam & Nathaniel Buck's Perspective Views. It is in As New condition. The image itself is sized 245 x 785 mm on paper sized 285 x 825 mm approx. It will be promptly posted to you in a stout tube. Erroneously dated 1970 due to Amazon's ISBN mismatch. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 285 x 825 mm. Item Type: Antique Print. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08310.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Size: 285 x 825 mm approx. This is a modern 2016 High Quality facsimile colour reprint of one of Sam & Nathaniel Buck's Perspective Views. It is in As New condition. The image itself is sized 245 x 785 mm on paper sized 285 x 825 mm approx. It will be promptly posted to you in a stout tube. Erroneously dated 1970 due to Amazon's ISBN mismatch. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 285 x 825 mm. Item Type: Antique Print. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08311.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Size: 285 x 825 mm. Item Type: Facsimile Antique Print. This is a modern High Quality facsimile reprint of one of Sam & Nathaniel Buck's Perspective Views. It is in As New condition. The image itself is sized 245 x 785 mm on paper sized 285 x 825 mm approx. It will be promptly posted to you in a stout tube. Not dated 1970 which we had to put to avoid Amazon's ISBN mismatch Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 285 x 825 mm. Item Type: Antique Print. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Lithos & Prints; Britain/UK; 18th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50400.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Size: 285 x 825 mm approx. This is a modern 2016 High Quality facsimile reprint of one of Sam & Nathaniel Buck's Perspective Views. It is in As New condition. The image itself is sized 245 x 785 mm on paper sized 285 x 825 mm approx. It will be promptly posted to you in a stout tube. Erroneously dated 1970 due to Amazon's ISBN mismatch. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 285 x 825 mm. Item Type: Antique Print. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Lithos & Prints; Britain/UK; 18th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50407.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A framed and glazed engraving of the "perspective view of Leicester, in Leicestershire", with later hand-colouring. The frame meaures 44 × 34cm, the mount's aperture is 30 × 19cm. Framed in a traditional Hogarth frame, with light grey mount. A charming late 18th century engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, showing a perspective of Leicester, with spires and steeples, windmills, farmers and their sheep, and distant hills. It was taken from The Modern Universal British Traveller, a 1779 book. Condition: Light tanning to the image but otherwise in very good condition, as is the frame.

Original-Pappband. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Gut. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). q2 Original-Pappband en britische Städte, Graphik, Kunst kl. Fleck auf vord. Vorsatz, Vorbesvermerk auf hint. innerem Einbanddeckel; 224 pp. Schutzumschlag: Gut.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy in d/w that is also fine. Illustrated by 84 double pages of panoramic plates and by 32 text figures, including map. The brothers, Samuel (1696-1779) and Nathaniel Buck toured England and Wales from 1728 to 1753. This is a landscape format facsimile edition of the town and city panoramas, edited by Ralph Hyde. He has written the introduction on the history and a fascinating description of the plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Dust Jacket Included. Buck, Samuel; Buck, Nathaniel (illustrator). 1st Edition. Oblong 4to. 224 pages, an AS NEW hardback in a like dust-jacket [1857931424].

Landscape 4to. 6 preliminary leaves. 19 engraved plates including 2 linen backed folding (see note) each with facing letterpress leaf. From the Library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, occasional minor browning, bound by Bumpus in gilt rule edged vellum backed green cloth, gilt lettered upper board, minor marking and wear, t.e.g. This the last and best reprint from the original plates, includes a fine folding engraved plate of Carlisle by Medland after Farington, not included in the 1837 edition. US$590.

Three vols, folio (vols I & II 46 x 30 cm, vol. III 46 x 46.5 cm); mezzotint portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, double-page map coloured in outline, 428 numbered engraved plates with descriptive captions, of which 6 folding, 83 double-page city prospects, engraved vignette head- and tailpieces, armorial bookplates to pastedowns of vols II & III, light spotting to 10 prospects and 6 folding plates, small repaired tear to inner margin of frontispiece and engraved title, outer margins of plate 297 trimmed, otherwise clean internally; contemporary full tree calf expertly restored preserving original spines, gilt rolled border to boards, flat gilt spines in seven compartments with contrasting gilt morocco lettering pieces, gilt to top edges tarnished, a near-fine set; viii, (9)-24, [2]; 17, [1]; 22pp. A handsome and complete set of this monumental collection of castles, abbeys, country houses, and city prospects, regarded as a crucial cultural touchstone of the eighteenth century. Buck's Antiquities preserves many castles and abbeys, which are now totally destroyed, and the ways of life of the towns and cities captured in their urban panoramas before the industrial revolution. This was the intention: unlike other works of the time that merely sought to romanticise English history, the Bucks sought to 'rescue the mangled remains. [of] these aged & venerable edifices from the inexorable jaws of time'. By all accounts they succeeded, as their engravings now stand as an invaluable source of local history and topography. The entire project took Samuel Buck (1696-1779) and his brother Nathaniel Buck (d.1759/1774) thirty-four years, with eighteen years of travelling between 1724 and 1742 and the engravings themselves appearing in parts from 1726 through to 1753. The commercial success of the enterprise initially made the Buck brothers wealthy, as is shown by the ostentatious mezzotint twin portrait engraved by Richard Houston after the painting by Joseph Highmore. Despite initial success, financial difficulties in later life forced the brothers to sell the plates to Robert Sayer in 1774, who then reissued the complete work in three volumes under the title Buck's Antiquities as here. Each plate has a, sometimes extensive, descriptive caption and the crest and title of the owner of the castle, abbey, or house in question. New to the 1774 issue are the additional descriptions of the plates in the introductions; for the prospects they expand to broad architectural descriptions of the town and cities they depict. Upcott, 1, xxxiii; Ralph Hyde, Gilded Scenes and Shining Prospects, Panoramic Views of British Towns 1575-1900; Ralph Hyde, A Prospect of Britain, The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck.

No binding. Zustand: Very Good. THE FINEST COLLECTION OF BRITISH PANORAMAS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Three volumes, folio (Prospect volume 455 x 480 mm., 2 plate volumes each 465 x 300 mm.), Prospect with full contemporary marbled calf, gilt panelled boards, rebacked with ornate gilt compartments and titles, light wear, two volumes of plates in fine full contemporary tree calf, gilt panelled boards, ribbed spines with very ornate gilt decoration to panels and with both title and volume calf gilt labels affixed. Volume 1 with mezzotint portrait, engraved title page, pp. 24 including typographic title page, unnumbered list of plates, folding index map, and 224 numbered (mostly by hand) plates (2 folding); volume 2 with typographic title page not included in pagination, pp. 17, unnumbered list of plates on recto of last leaf, further plates numbered 225 to 428 (4 folding), plate 256 of the Cross at Bristol never bound but loosely inserted, Prospect volume with typographic title page, Preface with List of Plates to the verso, Additional Historical Accounts, pp. 22, and 83 double-page city prospects, plates 1, 4, 10, 21, 30, 36, 45 and 47 with lower centrefold splits, 32 with tear lower margin, 33 split in margin, first and last with a little creasing, some light foxing in some margins, generally a good example of a very rare work. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck's 'A Prospect of Britain' printed in London in 1774, is generally accepted as the finest collection of panoramas of British cities to be published in the eighteenth century. The work contained a series of 81 large views and was published by Robert Sayer. The brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were born in Richmond, North Yorkshire and became interested in sketching town prospects because of Ralph Thoresby, a local antiquary. From 1719 they produced and published a series of views of towns in the north of England. Each was available to subscribers for between 2 and 5 shillings each. They soon outgrew the north and moved south to London. Their tours to sketch were prepared well in advance, potential subscribers being contacted before-hand usually through local press. The following summer season would be when the view was prepared. At the end of the season they would return to London and began the process of engraving. On occasions other artists were employed to enhance the foreground image and bring it to life, many including labourers, fishermen, sportsmen and peddlers. The work was finally completed in 1753 after 34 years. It has been suggested by Ralph Hyde that the engraver Jean-Baptiste Chatelain (1710-1771) may have been employed to produce many of the later plates.The commercial success of the enterprise initially made the brothers wealthy. However they both appear to have developed financial problems later in life. Nathaniel Buck died in 1756 and in 1774 Robert Sayer acquired the copper plates from Samuel and published them here in 'Buck's Antiquities', a magnificent three volume work priced at 20 guineas. In 1779 Samuel Buck died. Much of the topography documented in the views has subsequently been lost and they are a very valuable record of a pre-industrial Britain. These perspective panoramic views have never been surpassed; no other series of views ever published was as extensive or detailed. The front of the work bears a very fine mezzotint double portrait of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck dressed finely. It was engraved by Joseph Highmore after a painting by Richard Houston (1692-1780).They provided the model for numerous derivatives including the inset views to Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's 'Large English Atlas' c.1755, Robert and James Dodsley's 'England Illustrated' 1764, Nathaniel Spencer's 'Complete English Traveller' 1773, George Walpoole's 'New & Complete English Traveller' 1784 and the European, London and Universal Magazines from the 1750s. Provenance: London Antiquarian Book Fair 1996; private English collection; Clive A Burden Ltd. 2014; private English collection. Clayton, Timothy. (19.

Zustand: Good. Contemporary vellum spine and corners and paper covered boards, age worn. Oblong 2° (305 x 470mm). 24 engraved plates printed on single sheets. (Occasional time stains in margins, some edges slightly frayed with light dust soiling, but not into images.) There is an engraved list of the prints and the subscribers followed by the 24 plates. This is the first printing, which was published is sets of 24 plates for England and Wales at two guineas per set.Samuel Buck (1696-1779) and his brother Nathaniel (active 1724-59) published two major series of engraved views of England and Wales: 81 prospects of towns (1728-53) and views of over 400 antiquities - ruined castles, abbeys and the like (1726-42). These constitute the most significant print series produced in Britain in the first half of the 18th century. Taken as a whole, the engravings represent the nation's improving present condition along with the relics of its past.Britain was, in effect, a newly created state, born out of the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments in 1707. The political centre of gravity however, was England - a probable reason for why the Bucks did not venture into Scotland. The new country had been recognised as a world power by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, following the War of the Spanish Succession. Samuel Buck announced in November 1726 ".his intention of systematically recording ruins throughout England. The castles, religious foundations, and other remains of antiquity throughout the kingdom, he argued, were in a lamentable condition. He would 'rescue the mangled remains' of 'these aged & venerable edifices from the inexorable jaws of time' (S. Buck, 'Proposals for the publication of . twenty-four views of castles . in the counties of Lincoln and Nottingham', 1 Nov. 1726, copy in priv. coll.), by visiting and recording them. . . Finally they produced sets for Wales, apparently touring the counties of Wales in 1739-41.This work preceded Piranesi's view of ancient Rome by 3 years.Lowndes, p. 304.

2 volumes (of 3). Folio (18 x 11 2/8 inches). Fine mezzotint double portrait of the Buck brothers by Richard Houston after Joseph Highmore, additional engraved title-page by Charles Grignion after Henri Gravelot in volume one, folding engraved general index map 428 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE engraved views, including 6 FINE large folding plates (without the volume of town and city views). Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked to elaborate style, lower cover of volume one bumped at the bottom edge). A FINE AND ATTRACTIVE COPY OF PROBABLY THE BEST COLLECTION OF VIEWS OF ANTIQUITIES IN 18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND WALES, and providing a unique record of English and Welsh medieval and later architecture, much of which has either disappeared altogether, or has been altered almost beyond recognition. This monumental project was initially published over three decades from the 1720s. Having achieved great success with his publications of town prospects, Samuel Buck announced in November 1726 ".his intention of systematically recording ruins throughout England. The castles, religious foundations, and other remains of antiquity throughout the kingdom, he argued, were in a lamentable condition. He would 'rescue the mangled remains' of 'these aged & venerable edifices from the inexorable jaws of time' (S. Buck, 'Proposals for the publication of . twenty-four views of castles . in the counties of Lincoln and Nottingham', 1 Nov 1726, copy in priv. coll.), by visiting and recording them. In the summer of 1727 Nathaniel accompanied Samuel on a peregrination of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire. In 1728 the brothers announced their plan to undertake the remaining counties of northern England, but they discovered enough recordable ruins in Durham and Northumberland for the following year's set of twenty-four, and Cumberland and Westmorland had to wait. In 1729-31 they took their sketch-boards to the midlands, between 1732 and 1736 they covered the counties in the south of England and also in Monmouthshire, in 1737 they covered the counties of East Anglia, and in 1738 they completed England by dealing with Cumberland and Westmorland. Finally they produced sets for Wales, apparently touring the counties of Wales in 1739-41. With the publication in 1742 of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merioneth, Montgomeryshire, and Radnor, the antiquities project was completed. This project constituted only half of the Buck brothers' enterprise. From 1728 they had worked on a parallel project: producing and publishing a series of long prospects of English and Welsh 'Cities, Sea-ports, and Capital Towns'.The copper plates for printing the antiquities and the principal series of town prospects were acquired by the Fleet Street printmaker Robert Sayer. Sayer reissued the prints in 1774, making them available in single sheets, or bound into three volumes with the comprehensive title "Buck's Antiquities" (Ralph Hyde for DNB). Ralph Hyde, Gilded Scenes and Shining Prospects, Panoramic Views of British Towns 1575-1900, Yale Center for British Art, 1985, Chapter IV. Ralph Hyde, A Prospect of Britain, The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1994. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Original engraving, hand coloured, numbered 111, 37 x 20 cms., + border, engraving of Tychfield Abby with text beneath, explaining how the Abby was founded by Peter deRupibus, Bishop of Winchester and developing line of heritage, down to Duke of Beaufort and her Grace the Duchess of Portland, VG.

SHEET SIZE : c. 89 x 47 cms. IMAGE SIZE :c. 79 x 28 cms. Comprising Title and 5 plates [original numbers 41 to 45] within printed folder [copy of title]. Within the original printed, blue paper portfolio, now broadly wrinkled but not creased, clean and in very good condition, the maps are unaffected. *These views, together forming a panorama of 5 vantage points, from Westminster Bridge downstream to London Bridge and the Tower of London, have long been considered the most detailed, accurate and beautiful views of eighteenth century London.

No binding. 310 x 800 mm., margins trimmed slightly but still ample, very light paper crease to left of centre, otherwise in very good condition. The second state as usual with the plate number 12 engraved top right. The brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were born in Richmond, North Yorkshire and became interested in sketching town prospects because of Ralph Thoresby, a local antiquary. From 1719 they produced and published a series of views of towns in the north of England. Each was available to subscribers for between 2 and 5 shillings each. They soon outgrew the north and moved south to London. Their tours to sketch were prepared well in advance, potential subscribers being contacted before hand usually through local press. The following summer season would be when the view was prepared. On occasions other artists were employed to enhance the foreground image and bring it to life. Infrequently two prospects were designed to pair together such as those of Deptford and Greenwich and Chatham and Rochester. This created a longer panorama with greater impact. At the end of the season they would return to London and began the process of engraving. Nathaniel Buck died in 1756 and in 1774 Robert Sayer acquired the copper plates from Samuel and published them as 'Buck's Antiquities', a magnificent three volume work. In 1779 Samuel Buck died. Their perspective panoramic views have never been surpassed and are a very valuable record of a pre-industrial Britain. No other series of views ever published was as extensive or detailed. They provided the model for numerous derivatives including the inset views to Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's 'Large English Atlas' c.1755, Robert and James Dodsley's 'England Illustrated' 1764, Nathaniel Spencer's 'Complete English Traveller' 1773, George Walpoole's 'new & Complete English Traveller' 1784 and the European, London and Universal Magazines from the 1750s. The second state as usual with the plate number 12 engraved top right. Hyde 'A Prospect of Britain'.

No binding. 310 x 800 mm., margins trimmed but still ample, otherwise in good condition. The second state as usual with the plate number 18 engraved top right. The brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were born in Richmond, North Yorkshire and became interested in sketching town prospects because of Ralph Thoresby, a local antiquary. From 1719 they produced and published a series of views of towns in the north of England. Each was available to subscribers for between 2 and 5 shillings each. They soon outgrew the north and moved south to London. Their tours to sketch were prepared well in advance, potential subscribers being contacted before hand usually through local press. The following summer season would be when the view was prepared. On occasions other artists were employed to enhance the foreground image and bring it to life. Infrequently two prospects were designed to pair together such as those of Deptford and Greenwich and Chatham and Rochester. This created a longer panorama with greater impact. At the end of the season they would return to London and began the process of engraving. Nathaniel Buck died in 1756 and in 1774 Robert Sayer acquired the copper plates from Samuel and published them as 'Buck's Antiquities', a magnificent three volume work. In 1779 Samuel Buck died. Their perspective panoramic views have never been surpassed and are a very valuable record of a pre-industrial Britain. No other series of views ever published was as extensive or detailed. They provided the model for numerous derivatives including the inset views to Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's 'Large English Atlas' c.1755, Robert and James Dodsley's 'England Illustrated' 1764, Nathaniel Spencer's 'Complete English Traveller' 1773, George Walpoole's 'new & Complete English Traveller' 1784 and the European, London and Universal Magazines from the 1750s. The second state as usual with the plate number 18 engraved top right. Hyde (1994) 'A Prospect of Britain'.

Four hand-coloured engraved sheets (of 5, lacking the farthest right hand one of London Bridge) each c. 45 x 86 cm. and separately framed.

No binding. 310 x 800 mm., in good condition. The brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were born in Richmond, North Yorkshire and became interested in sketching town prospects because of Ralph Thoresby, a local antiquary. From 1719 they produced and published a series of views of towns in the north of England. Each was available to subscribers for between 2 and 5 shillings each. They soon outgrew the north and moved south to London. Their tours to sketch were prepared well in advance, potential subscribers being contacted before hand usually through local press. The following summer season would be when the view was prepared. On occasions other artists were employed to enhance the foreground image and bring it to life. Infrequently two prospects were designed to pair together such as those of Deptford and Greenwich and Chatham and Rochester. This created a longer panorama with greater impact. At the end of the season they would return to London and began the process of engraving. Nathaniel Buck died in 1756 and in 1774 Robert Sayer acquired the copper plates from Samuel and published them as 'Buck's Antiquities', a magnificent three volume work. In 1779 Samuel Buck died. Their perspective panoramic views have never been surpassed and are a very valuable record of a pre-industrial Britain. No other series of views ever published was as extensive or detailed. They provided the model for numerous derivatives including the inset views to Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's 'Large English Atlas' c.1755, Robert and James Dodsley's 'England Illustrated' 1764, Nathaniel Spencer's 'Complete English Traveller' 1773, George Walpoole's 'New & Complete English Traveller' 1784 and the European, London and Universal Magazines from the 1750s. The second state as usual with the plate number 68 engraved top right. Hyde 'A Prospect of Britain'.

No binding. 310 x 810 mm., in recent wash colour, light toning due to prior framing, otherwise in good condition. A magnificent panorama of the city of Leeds first separately issued in 1745. This second state as usual with the plate number 36 engraved top right indicates its publication in Samuel and Nathaniel Buck's 'A Prospect of Britain' printed in London in 1774. It is generally accepted as the finest collection of British city panoramas to be published in the eighteenth century. The work contained a series of 81 panoramas and was published by Robert Sayer. The brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were born in Richmond, North Yorkshire and became interested in sketching town prospects because of Ralph Thoresby, a local antiquary. From 1719 they produced and published a series of views of towns in the north of England. Each was available to subscribers for between 2 and 5 shillings each. They soon outgrew the north and moved south to London. Their tours to sketch were prepared well in advance, potential subscribers being contacted beforehand usually through local press. The following summer season would be when the view was prepared. At the end of the season they would return to London and began the process of engraving. On occasions other artists were employed to enhance the foreground image and bring it to life, many including labourers, fishermen, sportsmen and pedlars. The work was finally completed in 1753. It has been suggested by Ralph Hyde that the engraver Jean-Baptiste Chatelain (1710-1771) may have been employed to produce many of the later plates.The commercial success of the enterprise initially made the brothers wealthy. However, they both appear to have developed financial problems later in life. Nathaniel Buck died in 1756 and in 1774 Robert Sayer acquired the copper plates from Samuel and published them in 'Buck's Antiquities', a magnificent three volume work priced at 20 guineas. In 1779 Samuel Buck died. Much of the topography documented in the views has subsequently been lost and they are a very valuable record of a pre-industrial Britain. These perspective panoramic views have never been surpassed; no other series of views ever published was as extensive or detailed. They provided the model for numerous derivatives including the inset views to Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's 'Large English Atlas' c.1755, Robert and James Dodsley's 'England Illustrated' 1764, Nathaniel Spencer's 'Complete English Traveller' 1773, George Walpoole's 'New & Complete English Traveller' 1784 and the European, London and Universal Magazines from the 1750s. Hyde (1985); Hyde (1994); Upcott I, page xxxiii.

Copper engraving, printed on five sheets, framed and glazed individually (five in all), overall size per frame: 88cm x 38cm. The magnificent grand panorama of London. Samuel Buck and his brother Nathaniel are among the finest topographical artists to have worked in England. From 1720 onwards, first Samuel and then the two brothers toured England, drawing views of the cities and towns, castles, antiquities (particularly ruined monasteries) and other landmarks. They financed publication of this bold project by soliciting advance subscriptions. The crowning achievement of their long career, the most ambitious single view they had undertaken, is this highly important prospect of London taken from the River Thames drawn from five vantage points, and then blended into one continuous panorama, extending from Westminster Bridge downstream to London Bridge and the Tower of London. The subscription, originally conceived on four sheets, was announced thus, "London, Feb. 1746. No. 1. Garden-Court, Middle-Temple. Mess. S. and N. Buck, beg leave to inform those Gentlemen that have favour'd them with their Subscriptions. that for the next Set they propose to publish, viz. four Prospects of the Cities of London and Westminster. Though the Prospects of London, &c. will take much more Time in performing than any of the former Sets, the Subscription will be no more than the former Price, that is, 5s. paid at the Time of Subscribing, and 10s. upon Delivery." - in modern price 25 pence in advanced and fifty pence on delivery! (London Evening Post, 13th - 15th 1746). Delivery of the finished prints was announced in The London Gazette for 12th - 16th September 1749. While many other artists - Wenceslas Hollar, Jan Kip and William Morgan, amongst others - had published earlier panoramas from similar viewpoints, these early versions incorporated a great deal of artistic licence to flatter London. The Bucks' image is a faithful rendition, and its size, the detail and its accurate portrayal of London make it a definitive mid-eighteenth century record of London, in an era of rapid change. Unfortunately, this frontage on the Thames was transformed for ever, with the construction of the London Embankment in the Victorian period. This change is best exemplified by the two bridges depicted, Westminster Bridge under construction when this image was drawn, one of the keys to the future development of London, while London Bridge retains its mediaeval appearance, with houses, shops and even a watermill on it. The historical importance of the Buck panorama, its attention to minute detail in the search for accuracy, and its artistic beauty make it one of the most important and collectable of any of the images of historic London. Adams (London Illustrated), pp128-131; Hyde (A Prospect of Britain), plates 40-44.

17 ¾ x 33 ¾ in (45.1 x 85.73 cm). Copperplate engraving, titled on upper edge, annotated with description on lower edge and key on lower right (light browning, light crease down the middle, fading consistent with age). A RARE WINDOW INTO GLORIOUS PRE-INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND. This copperplate panorama presents one of the earliest topographical views of Britain, and provides a rare visual record of the historic town of Yarmouth before the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. The annotated key on the lower right guides the viewer through many of the principal features of this seaside town. The inscription at the lower edge offers meticulous notes on the town's history and local society. The work opens onto vibrant and lively scenes. In the foreground, townsfolk from different walks of life lounge and mingle. The middle of the composition shows ships and boats sailing along a ribbon of water. In the background is a stretch of buildings and churches rendered with extraordinary depth and clarity. Spread throughout the view are intricately rendered human figures who can be seen along the bowling green, the quay, the water, and the road. There is a wealth of detail here for the eyes to feast on. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were brothers born in Yorkshire, England at around the turn of the 18th century. They published engravings of 428 views of the ruins of all notable abbeys and castles in Britain, along with four views of seats and 83 large general views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. From 1728 to 1753, the two young men set out on an ambitious journey through England and Wales in order to engrave some of the country's most important cities and towns (R. Hyde, 7). What resulted was one of the most significant topographical undertakings ever done in Britain. Prior to the Bucks' copper plate panoramas, there were few depicted views of English cities and towns. Only a handful were included in the atlas by Braun and Hogenberg in their Civitates Orbis Terrurum, published in Cologne in 1581. Faced with difficult road conditions, squalid accommodations, and horseback robbers, the Buck brothers' trips through England and Wales were harrowing and arduous. As Ralph Hyde notes, "In such conditions, their persistence and single-mindedness in pursuing their systematic recording of England and Wales year after year.is downright heroic" (R. Hyde, 25). The present engraving of Yarmouth is one of the plates from the Bucks' magnificent townscape series, Cities, Sea-ports, and Capital Towns. Yarmouth, so called because it sits at the mouth of the river Yare, has always been the gateway to the sea from the Norfolk Broads (a large area of navigable rivers and lakes), and boasts one of the largest marketplaces in Britain. It was also the key setting for Charles Dickens's literary masterpiece David Copperfield. The supreme naval commander of the Roval Navy, Lord Horatio Nelson, was once a resident of the town. References: Ralph Hyde, A Prospect of Britain, The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, London, 1994. Catalogued by Xueli Wang, Columbia University, BA; Courtauld Institute of Art, MA. You are warmly invited to visit our gallery at 1016 Madison Avenue in NYC to view this work whenever it might be convenient.