Author: FIELDING, T[heodore] H[enry] and WALTON, J
Title: A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of That Part of the Country, &C. &C Illustrated with Forty-Eight Coloured Views...
Description: London, R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in contemporary leather-backed cloth with leather corners, gilt rules and lettering. Illustrated with a hand-colored title page vignette and 48 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn by Fielding, and Walton during a two years residence among the lakes. One of only 850 copies printed of what is considered the greatest illustrated book on the Lake District. Text and plates clean with only occasional offsetting from the text to the plates. Spine edges rubbed, corners worn. Very Good Abbey, SCENERY 192; Tooley 219.

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