Sickelmores' Select Views of Brighton. Brighton: C. and R. Sickelmore, [c.1824].
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Sickelmores' Select Views of Brighton. Brighton: C. and R. Sickelmore, [c.1824].

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Sickelmores' Select Views of Brighton. Brighton: C. and R. Sickelmore, [c.1824].

Oblong 2° (318 x 485mm). Printed leaf of explanation within a wide engraved border and 9 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by George Hunt after Edward Fox, S.A.E. Jones and H. Jones. (First plate with small marginal nick/soilmark, all plates with two soft vertical creases, slightly affecting image on plate 8.) Original yellow printed wrappers (backed with paper repairing nicks and losses to the fore and lower edges, partly affecting borders, paper backstrip); cloth folding case with gilt-lettered morocco cover label.

A variant of the first edition, the wrapper similar to Abbey 64 but without the part number indicated. This contains the nine plates of the first edition (there were ten in a later, also undated, edition). None of the plates is watermarked. cf. Abbey Scenery 63; Brunet IV, 667 (note).
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