OBSERVATIONS ON SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COUNTIES OF CAMBRIDGE, NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, AND ESSEX. ALSO ON SEVERAL PARTS OF NORTH WALES; RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO PICTURESQUE BEAUTY, IN TWO TOURS, THE FORMER MADE IN THE YEAR 1769. THE LATTER IN THE YEAR 1773.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809.
Full Leather. A clean copy. Filled with numerous aquatint plates of the ruins, abbeys, and countryside of Gilpin’s Two Tours. Bound in speckled calf with decorations and rules, and a black morocco label on the spine. The spine is attractively rebacked in calf. Decorative perimeter to the front and rear boards, edges and turn-ins rolled, all in gilt.Wear to the leading corners of the boards.Some foxing to the preliminaries. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on the front pastedown.
Very Good binding.
Item #283076
Price: $325.00
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