Illustrations of Knowle Cottage, Sidmouth, Devon, the marine residence of T.L. Fish, Esq., Sidmouth and London, John Wallis and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, [circa 1834], oblong 2°, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 3 plates only by T. Sutherland after T. Fidler (? of 4, some soiling and staining), contemporary black morocco, gilt -- PORTEUS, Beilby (successively Bishop of Chester and of London). [A Brief Description of Three Favourite Country Residences, to which is added Death, a poetical essay, n.p., 1807], 8°, engraved frontispiece, title in manuscript, 5 aquatint plates by F.C. Lewis (some browning and spotting), contemporary straight-grained black morocco (extremities rubbed), g.e. [Lowndes 1929: "About 20 copies privately printed"]; the lot sold not subject to return.

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Illustrations of Knowle Cottage, Sidmouth, Devon, the marine residence of T.L. Fish, Esq., Sidmouth and London, John Wallis and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, [circa 1834], oblong 2°, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 3 plates only by T. Sutherland after T. Fidler (? of 4, some soiling and staining), contemporary black morocco, gilt -- PORTEUS, Beilby (successively Bishop of Chester and of London). [A Brief Description of Three Favourite Country Residences, to which is added Death, a poetical essay, n.p., 1807], 8°, engraved frontispiece, title in manuscript, 5 aquatint plates by F.C. Lewis (some browning and spotting), contemporary straight-grained black morocco (extremities rubbed), g.e. [Lowndes 1929: "About 20 copies privately printed"]; the lot sold not subject to return.
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Provenance: I. A gift to John Arlott from the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral (presentation inscription loosely-inserted); II. M. Hodgson; A.H. Cadogan (ownership inscriptions on front blank); Peter Murray Hill, bookseller (loosely-inserted letter to John Arlott, dated 73 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, 3 April 1962, offering the book for sale at ¨10/10/- ).

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