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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 304 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes; Published to accompany an exhibition to be shown at the following venues: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; Huntington Art Collections ; The Baltimore Museum of Art ; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Published to accompany an exhibition to be shown at the following venues: 31 March-16 June 1996, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas ; 12 July-29 September 1996, Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, California ; 16 October 1996-5 January 1997, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland ; 25 January-6 April 1997, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnepolis, Minnesota" -- T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Published in association with: Parnassus Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Contents; Introduction : the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum and the history of print collecting / Antony Griffiths -- Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) / Antony Griffiths -- The Reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-99) / Antony Griffiths -- John Sheepshanks (1787-1863) and his Dutch and Flemish etchings / Martin Royalton-Kisch -- William Smith (1808-76) and the rise of interest in early engraving / Antony Griffiths -- Felix Slade (1790-1868) / Antony Griffiths -- William Second Baron Cheylesmore (1843-1902) and the taste for mezzotints / Sheila O'Connell -- William Mitchell (1820-1908) and John Malcolm of Poltalloch (1805-93) / Stephen Coppel -- George Salting (1835-1909) / Stephen Coppel -- Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) / Frances Carey -- Curatorial collecting in the twentieth century / Frances Carey. Subjects; Sloane, Hans Sir (1660-1753). Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt (1730-1799). Sheepshanks, John (1787-1863). Smith, William (1808-1876). Slade, Felix (1790-1868). Cheylesmore, William Meriton Eaton Baron (1843-1902). Mitchell, William (1820-1908). Malcolm, John (1805-1893). Salting, George (1835-1909). Dodgson, Campbell (1867-1948). British Museum ; Exhibitions. British Museum. British museum (Londres) Catalogues d'exposition. British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings Exhibitions. British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings. Prints Collectors and collecting ; Exhibitions. Prints England London ; Exhibitions. Prints Collectors and collecting. Prints Collectors and collecting Great Britain Exhibitions. Prints Great Britain Exhibitions. Genres; Bibliography. Catalogue. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Slim folio, ff. [9] lithographs, [3] leaves with 6 mounted steel engraved plates on thick laid paper, [1] blank; plates all a little browned and foxed in places, first plate of Malvern with small marginal tear; in 20th century full green pebble-grained publisher's cloth, with red morocco label on upper cover lettered in gilt, tail of spine nicked and worn, covers a little cockled and lightly soiled; ex libris the Earl of Ilchester with armorial book-plate on front paste-down. An appealing personally compiled album of mid to late Victorian topographical plates depicting scenes and notable landmarks of Wales and the surrounding areas. The volume includes 9 full-page lithographs and six smaller steel engraved images, mounted on to three leaves of fine laid paper. The lithograph plates comprise: 1. Malvern (From the Chalybeate Spa), Drawn from Nature on Stone & published by H. Lamb, Library, Malvern; 2.Aberystwyth. Drawn & Lithog. by W. Crane, Chester. Published by J. Cox. On India Paper, laid down; 3. Carnarvon. Drawn & Printed by W. Crane, Chester. Published by Messrs. Potter & Co. Printers & Booksellers, Carnarvon; 4. The Eagle Tower, Carnarvon Castle. Lithog by W. Crane, Chester (imprint faded), Published by Messrs. Potter & Co. Carnarvon; 5. Pont Aberglaslyn, Carnarvonshire. On Stone by L. Haghe, from a drawing by G. Pickering. Day & Haghe Lithrs to the King, London. Published by Poole & Boult, Chester. On India paper, laid down; 6. Snowdon, With Llanberris Lakes. On stone by L. Haghe from G. Pickering. Day & Haghe Lithrs to the King, London. Published Poole & Boult. On India paper, laid down; 7. Cader Idris near Barmouth. Lithog by W. Crane, Chester. On India paper laid down; 8. Snowdon from Capel Curig. Drawn & printed by W. Crane, Chester. On India Paper, laid down; 9. Conway. L. Haghe Lith: G. Pickering, Delt. Day & Haghe Lithrs to the King. Pubd by Poole & Boult, Chester. On India paper laid down. The six steel engravings, mounted on 3 sheets, have all been drawn by the Birmingham born landscape painter David Cox (1783-1859) and engraved by William Radclyffe (1783-1855). Radclyffe, also based in Birmingham, became known as an engraver of landscapes and set up as a copperplate printer. The six plates comprise: I. Barmouth, D. Cox and W. Radclyffe; 2. D. Cox & W. Radclyree; 3. Dolbadern Tower. T. Creswick & W. Radclyffe. Published by Wrightson & Webb, New Street Birmingham; 4. Pass of Llanberis. D. Cox & W. Radclyffe; 5. Falls of the Ogwen. D. Cox & W. Radclyffe. Published by Wrightson & Webb, Birmingham; 6. Rhaide y Wenol. D. Cox & W. Radclyffe. Published by Wrightson & Webb, New Street Birmingham.

4to, [xiv] + 479 + [Appendix:] 56 + [Index:] [lxxx] pp. Uncut, in original quarter-binding of grey paper boards and green cloth spine, with chipped red paper label, gilt, 'CATALOGUE OF BRITISH PORTRAITS'. Internally sound and tight on aged paper, apart from detached half-title and flyleaf. In worn boards, with closed tears to hinges. Ownership inscription of 'F. Walker' on flyleaf, and armorial bookplate of Captain Neville Rodwell Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of All Ireland, on front pastedown. Annotated throughout in a contemporary hand, making brief additions to entries and giving notes of prices fetched at auction (for example, 'at Kings 1 - 11. 6 | Gs. 2. 8. 0'. and 'W L with the Book of prints } 3: 3: 0 - | 2: 14: 0 Edward Brother to Edmd Kneeling'). Loosely inserted is a corrected typescript (possibly by Wilkinson), headed 'PREFACE: (Authors) [to a book on 'the glories of great palaces'?]' and written in an entertaining style, with reference 'the unscientific picture-lover, whose quiet waters of contemplation will be stirred by the squalls of controversy'.

Oblong 4to, (372x258mm), ff. [12] leaves of lithographed plates, two on India paper and laid down, and printed variously by Charles Hullmandel, Godefroy Engelmann, and Graf & Soret; plates are unnumbered; front endpaper creased, some occasional light foxing to plates, though first and eighth plate more prominently browned and foxed due to varying paper quality; stitched as issued, in contemporary buff printed boards lettered in black, marbled paper backed spine though most of spine now exposed, covers somewhat soiled, with wear to extremities and corners, and thus a little dog-eared; nevertheless sound and tight with the plates in good strong impressions. Rare unrecorded variant issue, containing twelve plates (as opposed to variant issues containing 6 and 10), of a striking souvenir album celebrating the charms of Malvern, on the cusp of the town becoming a popular centre for hydrotherapy. Henry Lamb (fl. 1826-1861) was an artist and lithographer, who opened his Fancy Repository Shop in Cheltenham in around 1824. Itself a burgeoning spa town, with good links to London, Lamb soon opened a second shop in the town, and in 1832 published a peepshow of the town, 'Cheltenhamorama', and then in 1833 'Views of Cheltenham and its Vicinity' (printed in Malvern), having previously published the present work in around 1830. His links with London brought him into contact with the noted lithographers Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850) and Godefroy Engelmann (1788-1839). At some point he opened his 'Royal Library and Bazaar' in Malvern itself, which sold fancy items, books, and stationery. It was visited by Darwin's young family during one of their early visits to the town. Lamb was to publish a number of souvenir print books of the town, especially once it had become a popular spa destination. A variant issue with six plates was issued with the lithographs printed on India paper and mounted, and which Abbey dates to ca. 1830. Yale hold a copy with 10 plates, which we presume is Abbey 266. Our copy does not contain the plate of the North Malvern Tanks, and includes three of the plates from Abbey 267. Whilst this could be called an extra illustrated copy of Abbey 266, what seems more likely is that perhaps Lamb was open to customers curating their own selection of plates which he then had stitched and bound. Two leading exponents, Dr James Wilson, and Dr James Manby Gully, both established clinics in the town during the early 1840s, several large hotels and guest houses in the town dating from this time, as it became a popular 'water cure' destination, attracting a stream of celebrated visitors including Queen Adelaide, Thomas Carlyle, Florence Nightingale, Tennyson, Wilberfore, and Charles Darwin, who visited on a number of occasions, both for his own health, as well as in an attempt to improve the health of his daughter Anne (or Annie). Sadly she succumbed to illness and died during a visit in 1851, and is buried in Great Malvern Priory churchyard. See Abbey 266 and 267 for variant issues of 10 and six plates.