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[PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti]. Select Views of London; with historical and descriptive sketches of some of the most interesting of its public buildings. London: J.Diggens for R.Ackermann, 1816.
Large 8° (275 x 185mm.). 2pp. publishers' advertisments at front, 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates, five folding. Contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, red morocco box.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOKFORM AND A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY in what is possibly a publisher's binding. Issue without Papworth's name on title. Also issued as part of Ackermann's Repository from 1810 to 1815. Abbey Scenery 217; Tooley 361.
Large 8° (275 x 185mm.). 2pp. publishers' advertisments at front, 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates, five folding. Contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, red morocco box.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOKFORM AND A FINE UNSOPHISTICATED COPY in what is possibly a publisher's binding. Issue without Papworth's name on title. Also issued as part of Ackermann's Repository from 1810 to 1815. Abbey Scenery 217; Tooley 361.