Author: Anonymous
Title: The Tourist in Wales, Comprising Views of Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility, Gentry, &C
Description: London, George Virtue, 1851 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated insight into the towns and landscape of Wales in the first half of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and forty-eight further plates. Collated complete.Plates depict locations including Conway Castle, Wrexham Church, Tintern Abbey, and Conway Suspension Bridge.With a number of plates illustrated artist and steel engraver William Henry Bartlett and engraver and watercolourist Henry Gastineau, but with the majority of plates uncredited.The first volume only of a work that was eventually expanded into a second volume.Undated; dated 1851 via Jisc and WorldCat.Retaining the original letterpress title page.A lovely work, in a delightfully decorative binding. In a full morocco binding, with extensive gilt detailing to boards and back strip. Light fading to back strip, with light rubbing to joints. Bump to head of front board, towards the fore edge. Hinges lightly strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, with tissue guards significantly age toned. Very Good . Ill.: W. H. Bartlett; Henry Gastineau et al. Very Good .
Keywords: wales welsh William Henry Bartlett engraving welsh W. H. Bartlett; Henry Gastineau et al.
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Title: The Tourist in Wales, Comprising Views of Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility, Gentry, &C
Description: London, George Virtue, 1851 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated insight into the towns and landscape of Wales in the first half of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and forty-eight further plates. Collated complete.Plates depict locations including Conway Castle, Wrexham Church, Tintern Abbey, and Conway Suspension Bridge.With a number of plates illustrated artist and steel engraver William Henry Bartlett and engraver and watercolourist Henry Gastineau, but with the majority of plates uncredited.The first volume only of a work that was eventually expanded into a second volume.Undated; dated 1851 via Jisc and WorldCat.Retaining the original letterpress title page.A lovely work, in a delightfully decorative binding. In a full morocco binding, with extensive gilt detailing to boards and back strip. Light fading to back strip, with light rubbing to joints. Bump to head of front board, towards the fore edge. Hinges lightly strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, with tissue guards significantly age toned. Very Good . Ill.: W. H. Bartlett; Henry Gastineau et al. Very Good .
Keywords: wales welsh William Henry Bartlett engraving welsh W. H. Bartlett; Henry Gastineau et al.
Price: GBP 130.00 = appr. US$ 185.64 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 866F36
- Book number: 866F36
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