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WESTALL, William & Samuel OWEN. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames. London: by R. Ackermann, 1828.
One volume bound in five, 4° (342 x 274mm). Title and last leaf of text with hand-coloured aquatint vignettes, engraved folding map and 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. G. Reeve and others after Westall and Owen, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with five two-colour letterpress titles, and 490 views, plates and maps, many mounted to size. Later green morocco gilt, covers with triple-fillet and small drawer-handle tool border, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat pattern composed from various small tools, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son (light scuffing to lower edge of boards).
A FINELY PRESENTED WORK WITH NEARLY 500 ADDITIONAL PLATES. The plates include include 74 (of 76) hand-coloured aquatints from Boydell's Thames (cf. Abbey Scenery 432, lacking Abbey nos. 71 and 72), 62 (of the set of 64) hand-coloured aquatint views from Ackermann's Oxford (cf. Abbey Scenery 278), 9 plates from Ackermann's Microcosm, tinted aquatints by Samuel Ireland (from Pictureque Views on the River Thames), steel-engravings from Tombleson's Thames and numerous other part series (a series of etchings by David Law, signed in pencil) and some outstanding individual prints, including a view of Chelsea by James McNeil Whistler and Robert Havell's rare folding hand-coloured aquatint panoramic view of London, titled 'An Aeronautical View of London' (340 x 1090mm.), dated 20 April 1836. Abbey Scenery 435; Tooley 503. (5)
One volume bound in five, 4° (342 x 274mm). Title and last leaf of text with hand-coloured aquatint vignettes, engraved folding map and 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. G. Reeve and others after Westall and Owen, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with five two-colour letterpress titles, and 490 views, plates and maps, many mounted to size. Later green morocco gilt, covers with triple-fillet and small drawer-handle tool border, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with repeat pattern composed from various small tools, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son (light scuffing to lower edge of boards).
A FINELY PRESENTED WORK WITH NEARLY 500 ADDITIONAL PLATES. The plates include include 74 (of 76) hand-coloured aquatints from Boydell's Thames (cf. Abbey Scenery 432, lacking Abbey nos. 71 and 72), 62 (of the set of 64) hand-coloured aquatint views from Ackermann's Oxford (cf. Abbey Scenery 278), 9 plates from Ackermann's Microcosm, tinted aquatints by Samuel Ireland (from Pictureque Views on the River Thames), steel-engravings from Tombleson's Thames and numerous other part series (a series of etchings by David Law, signed in pencil) and some outstanding individual prints, including a view of Chelsea by James McNeil Whistler and Robert Havell's rare folding hand-coloured aquatint panoramic view of London, titled 'An Aeronautical View of London' (340 x 1090mm.), dated 20 April 1836. Abbey Scenery 435; Tooley 503. (5)
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Please note that this work consists of one volume bound in four and not five, and has four two-colour letterpress titles, not five as stated in the catalogue.