ABBEY, JOHN ROLAND - Abbay Collection of Colour-Plate Books Illustrated in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. A Bibliographical Catalogue [4 Vols = Complete Set].

Folkestone-London, Dawson of Pall Mall. 1972. Original publisher's gray-purple cloth hardback, gilt lettering on red label spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: I. Scenery of great Britain and Ireland: xx, 400pp. 556 items extensively described, 34 bl.& wh. plates, 54 text-illustrations, indices. II. Life in England. Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army, Panoramas etc: xxij, 428pp. 32 bl.& wh. plates, 50 figure, indicess. Volume III-1. World, Europe, Afrika: coloured frontispiece, xiv, 300pp. catalogue of 347 items, 20 plates, 23 figures. Volume III-2: Asia, Oceania, Antartica, America: xiv, pages 301-676, bl.& wh. plates 21-36, text-illustrations 24-52, catalogue items 348 - 728, indices. With extend descriptions of title - size - watermaks - bindings - text - maps - all plates - notes - indices. Fine complete set.