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NEWHOUSE, Charles B. The Roadsters' Album. London: Fores, 1845.
4° (373 x 270mm). Hand-coloured engraved title after H. Alken, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Newhouse, heightened with gum arabic. 8-pages publisher’s advertisement at end printed in brown, blue, green and red. (Some plates bound out of sequence, plate 1 reinforced along gutter margin with linen tape, plate 12 with short marginal repaired tear.) Original brown cloth, the sides with foliate border in blind, the upper side lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers (recased, some pale staining); folding blue half morocco case. Provenance: Alfred Marmore Maclay (bookplate) -- acquired from Inman, 1945.
A BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. A reissue of the first edition published by Watson in 1833 under the title Incidents of Travelling. To that edition, Fores added the magnificent pictorial title-page by Henry Alken. Spitz notes that the advertisements in coloured inks are 'found only in the earliest copies'. Abbey Life 407; Mellon/Snelgrove, p. 126; Tooley 346.
4° (373 x 270mm). Hand-coloured engraved title after H. Alken, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Newhouse, heightened with gum arabic. 8-pages publisher’s advertisement at end printed in brown, blue, green and red. (Some plates bound out of sequence, plate 1 reinforced along gutter margin with linen tape, plate 12 with short marginal repaired tear.) Original brown cloth, the sides with foliate border in blind, the upper side lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers (recased, some pale staining); folding blue half morocco case. Provenance: Alfred Marmore Maclay (bookplate) -- acquired from Inman, 1945.
A BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. A reissue of the first edition published by Watson in 1833 under the title Incidents of Travelling. To that edition, Fores added the magnificent pictorial title-page by Henry Alken. Spitz notes that the advertisements in coloured inks are 'found only in the earliest copies'. Abbey Life 407; Mellon/Snelgrove, p. 126; Tooley 346.
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