Author: Duchess of Northumberland C.F. :
Title: Castles of Alnwick, & Warkworth, & c.
Description: .: 12. (Alnwick), private edition, 1824, printed by W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, Cleveland Row, St-James, in-4°, 29 x 22 cm, (2)(halftitle) + lithographed title + (4) nnpp + 80 pp numbered (2-39) + 38 (of 39) lithographic plates, most of them full page, all printed on laid chinese paper (missing is plate 24 North view of Warkworth castle). Contemporary green wafered boards, manuscript French ex-dono on fly leaf, signed by the duchess on the dedication leaf. Nice copy without stains, only some minor marginal waterstain on the last leaf. Nice copy of a rare early lithograph illustrated book. The lithographs were drawn by J.D. Harding and printed by C. Hullmandel. Even the initial at page 1 is lithographed and printed on laid paper (size only 30 x 26 mm).. .

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