Author: Anonymous
Title: A Tourist in Wales: A Series of Views of Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Antiquities &C.
Description: London, George Virtue , [1851]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon collection of engravings depicting the beautiful scenery of Wales with descriptions on the towns and landscape. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, an engraved title page, a vignette to the title page and forty-eight further plates. Collated complete. Bound in full blind stamped cloth. This work features a collection of plates depicting the picturesque scenery and architecture of Wales. The plates depict locations including Conway Castle, Wrexham Church, Tintern Abbey, and Conway Suspension Bridge. With a number of plates illustrated by artist and steel engraver William Henry Bartlett with the majority of plates uncredited. The first volume only of a work that was eventually expanded into a second volume.Undated, dated by copies held on Jisc. Bound in full blind stamped cloth. Externally smart with damp stains to the front boards, bumping to the extremities and marks to the boards and spine. Light spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages with occasional light spotting, heavier to the front. Very Good . Ill.: William Henry Bartlett et al. Very Good .
Keywords: Illustrated Wales Tourism Art Wales Plates Landscape William Henry Bartlett et al.
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Title: A Tourist in Wales: A Series of Views of Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Antiquities &C.
Description: London, George Virtue , [1851]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon collection of engravings depicting the beautiful scenery of Wales with descriptions on the towns and landscape. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, an engraved title page, a vignette to the title page and forty-eight further plates. Collated complete. Bound in full blind stamped cloth. This work features a collection of plates depicting the picturesque scenery and architecture of Wales. The plates depict locations including Conway Castle, Wrexham Church, Tintern Abbey, and Conway Suspension Bridge. With a number of plates illustrated by artist and steel engraver William Henry Bartlett with the majority of plates uncredited. The first volume only of a work that was eventually expanded into a second volume.Undated, dated by copies held on Jisc. Bound in full blind stamped cloth. Externally smart with damp stains to the front boards, bumping to the extremities and marks to the boards and spine. Light spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages with occasional light spotting, heavier to the front. Very Good . Ill.: William Henry Bartlett et al. Very Good .
Keywords: Illustrated Wales Tourism Art Wales Plates Landscape William Henry Bartlett et al.
Price: GBP 75.00 = appr. US$ 107.10 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 899Z14
- Book number: 899Z14
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