![[NOBLE, W.B.] A Guide to the Watering Places... between the Exe and the Dart. Teignmouth: E. Croydon, 1817. 4 parts in one volume, 8° (211 x 134mm). Folding engraved map as frontispiece, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates by D. Havell and others after Noble, 3 of these folding. (The map with short marginal tear, occasional light browning.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, sides panelled in gilt and blind and centred with a blind arabesque within a wide gilt lozenge, edges gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance John Fisher (1748-1825, Bishop of Salisbury; bookplate on rear pastedown) -- Elizabeth Mirehouse (bookplate, signature).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_09702_0188_000(noble_wb_a_guide_to_the_watering_places_between_the_exe_and_the_dart_t065503).jpg?w=1)
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[NOBLE, W.B.] A Guide to the Watering Places... between the Exe and the Dart. Teignmouth: E. Croydon, 1817. 4 parts in one volume, 8° (211 x 134mm). Folding engraved map as frontispiece, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates by D. Havell and others after Noble, 3 of these folding. (The map with short marginal tear, occasional light browning.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, sides panelled in gilt and blind and centred with a blind arabesque within a wide gilt lozenge, edges gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance John Fisher (1748-1825, Bishop of Salisbury; bookplate on rear pastedown) -- Elizabeth Mirehouse (bookplate, signature).
FIRST EDITION IN RED MOROCCO, with the bookplate of John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. Fisher was 'a highly cultured prelate, a generous patron of both authors and artists, and a capable sketcher; he was chaplain to the Royal Academy in 1807 and helped to set up the British Institution the previous year. For the last twenty-five years of his life he was one of John Constable's leading patrons' (ODNB). The work concludes with a chapter on the conchology of the region. Abbey Scenery 115; Tooley 347.
FIRST EDITION IN RED MOROCCO, with the bookplate of John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. Fisher was 'a highly cultured prelate, a generous patron of both authors and artists, and a capable sketcher; he was chaplain to the Royal Academy in 1807 and helped to set up the British Institution the previous year. For the last twenty-five years of his life he was one of John Constable's leading patrons' (ODNB). The work concludes with a chapter on the conchology of the region. Abbey Scenery 115; Tooley 347.