Lot 259
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LOUTHERBOURG, Philippe Jacques de (1740-1812). The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, London: Robert Bowyer, 1805. 2° (467 x 322mm). Text in English and French, 18 aquatint plates by William Pickett after Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, hand-coloured by John Clark. (Some mainly marginal staining touching image of one plate, a few spots.) Contemporary red morocco-backed boards, later photographic portrait of de Loutherbourg tipped onto front free endpaper (extremities rubbed, scuffed). FIRST EDITION, without the frontispiece added later. Abbey Scenery 9; Brunet III, 1188; Lowndes IV, p.1400; Tooley 305; Upcott p. xxxiv.
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LOUTHERBOURG, Philippe Jacques de (1740-1812). The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, London: Robert Bowyer, 1805. 2° (467 x 322mm). Text in English and French, 18 aquatint plates by William Pickett after Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, hand-coloured by John Clark. (Some mainly marginal staining touching image of one plate, a few spots.) Contemporary red morocco-backed boards, later photographic portrait of de Loutherbourg tipped onto front free endpaper (extremities rubbed, scuffed). FIRST EDITION, without the frontispiece added later. Abbey Scenery 9; Brunet III, 1188; Lowndes IV, p.1400; Tooley 305; Upcott p. xxxiv.

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LOUTHERBOURG, Philippe Jacques de (1740-1812). The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, London: Robert Bowyer, 1805. 2° (467 x 322mm). Text in English and French, 18 aquatint plates by William Pickett after Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, hand-coloured by John Clark. (Some mainly marginal staining touching image of one plate, a few spots.) Contemporary red morocco-backed boards, later photographic portrait of de Loutherbourg tipped onto front free endpaper (extremities rubbed, scuffed). FIRST EDITION, without the frontispiece added later. Abbey Scenery 9; Brunet III, 1188; Lowndes IV, p.1400; Tooley 305; Upcott p. xxxiv.
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