Author: ROSCOE Thomas
Title: Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales [with] South Wales. With Engravings by Radclyffe from Drawings by Cattermole, Cox, Creswick etc. SPLENDID SET OF ROSCOE'S WALES IN SIGNED HAYDAY BINDING
Description: C. Tilt, and Simpkin & Co [and others],, 1836. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces (original blank guards present), engraved and printed titles, engraved vignettes on Contents and Lists of Plates, and 93 fine engraved plates (all original blank guards present), some light and inoffensive spotting, a little heavier on preliminaries otherwise mainly marginal); elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco BY HAYDAY, sides with multiple frame borders stopped at inner corners by stylised hibuscus, backs with raised bands, second compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt dentelles, gilt doublures, primrose endpapers, a splendid set in signed Hayday binding. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. A SPLENDID SET IN NEAR FINE STATE FROM A MASTER BINDER.

Keywords: topography, wales, north wales, south wales, roscoe, thomas roscoe, hayday, binders, fine bindings, signed


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