Author: [ Francis Wrangham and William Combe].
Title: POETICAL SKETCHES OF SCARBOROUGH IN 1813
Description: Driffield, Frank Fawcett Large Paper edition limited to 60 copies this No.17 1893 hand-coloured aquatint plates [21] etched by Rowlandson after James Green from original Designs . 4to tan cloth on bevelled boards with printed spine label [hinges rubbed/label with sl.loss to edges /corners bumped] half-title/publisher's note to verso +Hand colored frontispiece + titlepage in red and black + [2p=dedication] + [2p=publisher's Preface] + [2p=Advertisement] +[2p=contents] + xv[=Some account of Scarborough] +{1p=blank] +215pp One plate partly loose else all neat and tight. Last 6 leaves with marginal stain along part of the fore-edge but nowhere near to printed area. Uncut edges and one or two unopened leaves, half title with some spotting. Paper watermarked Ached Arnold 1892 [on p185]. Large paper copy size 10.5 by 8 inches.

Keywords: humor Rowlandson illustrations


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