![PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The History of the Royal Residences. London: L. Harrison for A. Dry, 1819 [but watermarked 1828-1829]. 3 volumes, 4° (335 x 275mm). 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Some light offsetting, principally from plates onto text, occasional light spotting mainly in the text, vol. 2 with a small repair in the frontispiece margin and in the bottom margin of another.) Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, spines gilt and lettered in compartments, the sides with a wide foliate border in gilt and blind and centred, perhaps later, with a large ornament in gilt, gilt edges (spines darkened, some sides lightly discoloured, some joints perhaps very neatly repaired near the spine ends, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: H.D. Lyon, bookseller (pencilled collation note).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08952_0133_000(pyne_william_henry_the_history_of_the_royal_residences_london_l_harris075903).jpg?w=1)
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PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The History of the Royal Residences. London: L. Harrison for A. Dry, 1819 [but watermarked 1828-1829]. 3 volumes, 4° (335 x 275mm). 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Some light offsetting, principally from plates onto text, occasional light spotting mainly in the text, vol. 2 with a small repair in the frontispiece margin and in the bottom margin of another.) Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, spines gilt and lettered in compartments, the sides with a wide foliate border in gilt and blind and centred, perhaps later, with a large ornament in gilt, gilt edges (spines darkened, some sides lightly discoloured, some joints perhaps very neatly repaired near the spine ends, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: H.D. Lyon, bookseller (pencilled collation note).
ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AQUATINT BOOKS TO BE PUBLISHED ON ENGLISH INTERIORS. This celebrated work was the first to illustrate royal palaces and houses in any detail: volume I is a valuable record of the state rooms of Windsor Castle formed for Charles II; volume II is devoted to Hampton Court, Buckingham Palace, and Kensington Palace, constructed for William III, but so neglected by 1814 that the Duke of Kent complained of 'rain pouring through the ceiling at twenty different points' and of being 'literally perishing with cold in my library'; volume III includes 20 plates showing Carlton House, considered to have had the most spectacular interiors in Regency London. Abbey Scenery 396; Tooley 389. (3)
ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AQUATINT BOOKS TO BE PUBLISHED ON ENGLISH INTERIORS. This celebrated work was the first to illustrate royal palaces and houses in any detail: volume I is a valuable record of the state rooms of Windsor Castle formed for Charles II; volume II is devoted to Hampton Court, Buckingham Palace, and Kensington Palace, constructed for William III, but so neglected by 1814 that the Duke of Kent complained of 'rain pouring through the ceiling at twenty different points' and of being 'literally perishing with cold in my library'; volume III includes 20 plates showing Carlton House, considered to have had the most spectacular interiors in Regency London. Abbey Scenery 396; Tooley 389. (3)