Item #283076 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. William Gilpin.

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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