Author: Capt. Batty
Title: Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland
Description: London, Robert Jennings, 1826 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty's collection of sixty engravings illustrating the Rhine, Belgium and Holland. The first edition of this work.Collated, lacking the frontispiece, but retaining all sixty engraved views.Each view is accompanied by a text leaf describing the location depicted.Batty was an English army officer and self-taught artist, who served in the campaign of the Western Pyrenees and at Waterloo as a Grenadier Guard. Anan amateur artist of considerable merit, from 1822 to 1833 he travelled the continent drawing and painting. The engraved title page has been been significantly trimmed to the perimeters, and mounted on a blank leaf.With two loosely inserted small reproductions of Batty's plates.A beautifully illustrated and described work. In the publisher's original quarter reverse calf binding, with morocco covered boards. Significant rubbing to back strip. Front free endpaper renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Lacking frontispiece. Title page significantly trimmed to perimeters, and mounted to a blank leaf with ink ruled border. Pages bright and generally clean, with spotting to plate perimeters. Very Good . Ill.: Robert Batty. Very Good .
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Title: Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland
Description: London, Robert Jennings, 1826 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty's collection of sixty engravings illustrating the Rhine, Belgium and Holland. The first edition of this work.Collated, lacking the frontispiece, but retaining all sixty engraved views.Each view is accompanied by a text leaf describing the location depicted.Batty was an English army officer and self-taught artist, who served in the campaign of the Western Pyrenees and at Waterloo as a Grenadier Guard. Anan amateur artist of considerable merit, from 1822 to 1833 he travelled the continent drawing and painting. The engraved title page has been been significantly trimmed to the perimeters, and mounted on a blank leaf.With two loosely inserted small reproductions of Batty's plates.A beautifully illustrated and described work. In the publisher's original quarter reverse calf binding, with morocco covered boards. Significant rubbing to back strip. Front free endpaper renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Lacking frontispiece. Title page significantly trimmed to perimeters, and mounted to a blank leaf with ink ruled border. Pages bright and generally clean, with spotting to plate perimeters. Very Good . Ill.: Robert Batty. Very Good .
Keywords: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty engraving germany rhine engraving Robert Batty
Price: GBP 240.00 = appr. US$ 342.72 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 895F2
- Book number: 895F2
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