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SULLIVAN, Dennis. A Picturesque Tour through Ireland. London: W.Lewis for Thomas M'Lean, 1824.
Oblong 4° (200 x 270mm.). 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary red half roan gilt, red roan title label mounted on upper cover, paper label on font pastedown (rebacked and cornered, original spine neatly laid down), modern cloth box. Provenance: Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Tooley notes that there is a leaf of description for each plate, Abbey that all but the frontispiece require text. This copy is complete with no leaf of description for the frontispiece, and with one leaf of text for both of the Belfast plates. Cf.Abbey Scenery 460; cf.Tooley 469.
Oblong 4° (200 x 270mm.). 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary red half roan gilt, red roan title label mounted on upper cover, paper label on font pastedown (rebacked and cornered, original spine neatly laid down), modern cloth box. Provenance: Thomas Philip Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Tooley notes that there is a leaf of description for each plate, Abbey that all but the frontispiece require text. This copy is complete with no leaf of description for the frontispiece, and with one leaf of text for both of the Belfast plates. Cf.Abbey Scenery 460; cf.Tooley 469.