Author: BRANNON George
Title: Vectis Scenery. Being a Series of Original and Select Views exhibiting Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight. [Facsimile reissue.] 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Description: [Robin G. McInnes, Bembridge],, [2002]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved title-vignette, 40 engraved plates and large folding engraved map; green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER (THIS COPY NO. 551). High quality facsimile of the 1865 edition. Includes separately printed List of Subscribers together with the author's booklet 'A Short History and Bibliography of the Vectis Scenery engravings by the Brannon family in the context of Isle of Wight art'. Anderson p.121 (recording the original edition of 1825 and later issues).

Keywords: topography, hampshire, iow, isle of wight, vectis scenery, brannon, george brannon, robin mcinnes


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