1ST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN MARBLED BOARDS AND QUARTER RED LEATHER SPINE. PREVIOUS OWNER`S BOOKPLATE ON INSIDE FRONT BOARD. FOREWORD BY LORD LEE OF FAREHAM. PULL OUT MAP OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AT THE FRONT SHOWING PLACES MENTIONED IN THESE PAGES AND 4 PLATES.
VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN GILT EMBOSSED BROWN LEATHER. ALBUM GRAVURES PAR LES PREMIERS ARTISTS DE FRANCE. AVEC DES TEXTES PIECES DE VERS NOUVELLES etc. WEAK BINDING FOXING THROUGHOUT FRENCH TEXT.
THIS WAS PUBLISHED AS 5 VOLUMES WITH TWO DIVISIONS PER VOLUME. THIS SET IS NOT COMPLETE BEING DIVISIONS 246810 INDIVIDUALLY BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL RED CLOTH. THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES COVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE REST THE CONTINENT. EACH BOOK GOES FROM AROUND PAGE 145 TO AROUND PAGE 288. CIRCA 1880 FIVE VOLUMES QUARTO ORIGINAL RED CLOTH FINE GILT AND BLACK DECORATION TO THE BOARDS BEVELLED EDGES SPINES DARKENED ALL EDGES GILT STAIN TO ONE FRONT BOARD SEVERAL HINGES CRACKED OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. MANY FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS AND WOODCUTS.
LIMITED TO 100 COPIES QUARTO BOUND IN FULL VELLUM BEVELLED BOARDS ELABORATE GILT DESIGN TO FRONT BOARD GILT TITLES ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVED PLATES AND BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. SOME SPOTTING TO THE REAR BOARD BUT A VERY GOOD COPY.
LIMITED TO 260 COPIES ILLUSTRATED WITH 21 HAND-COLOURED PLATES AFTER J GREEN BY ROWLANDSON. A FACSIMILIE REPRINT OF THE 1813 EDITION. GREEN CLOTH WITH BEVELLED BOARDS VERY GOOD.
