PENNANT (THOMAS): SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, London, [(?) Robert Faulder], 1793 [but 1792], 5 vols., folio, third edition extra-illustrated, folio with inlaid text leaves printed in 4to, engraved title vignettes and 764 engraved, mezzotint and aquatint portraits and views, 5 original watercolours, all mounted (occasional very light offsetting), contemporary russia, gilt (rubbed, rebacked with old 7 section spines laid-down, covers of vol. V detached), g.e. [cf. Lowndes V 1824; Upcott 641] (5) | Christie's

Lot 277

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PENNANT (THOMAS): SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, London, [(?) Robert Faulder], 1793 [but 1792], 5 vols., folio, third edition extra-illustrated, folio with inlaid text leaves printed in 4to, engraved title vignettes and 764 engraved, mezzotint and aquatint portraits and views, 5 original watercolours, all mounted (occasional very light offsetting), contemporary russia, gilt (rubbed, rebacked with old 7 section spines laid-down, covers of vol. V detached), g.e. [cf. Lowndes V 1824; Upcott 641] (5)

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PENNANT (THOMAS): SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, London, [(?) Robert Faulder], 1793 [but 1792], 5 vols., folio, third edition extra-illustrated, folio with inlaid text leaves printed in 4to, engraved title vignettes and 764 engraved, mezzotint and aquatint portraits and views, 5 original watercolours, all mounted (occasional very light offsetting), contemporary russia, gilt (rubbed, rebacked with old 7 section spines laid-down, covers of vol. V detached), g.e. [cf. Lowndes V 1824; Upcott 641] (5)

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The majority of the plates are 18th- and 19th-century by W.Hollar, J.Harris, G.Virtue, J.Boydell and others. The 3 signed watercolours are by G.Tomkins and dated 1803.

Illustrated in both colour and black-and-white.

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