FIELDING, Theodore Henry & J. WALTON. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, London: William Clowes for R. Ackermann, 1821, large 4°, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES, hand-coloured aquatint title vignette and 48 plates after Fielding and Walton (contemporary ownership inscriptions erased from title, directions leaf and first leaf of text), later straight-grained purple morocco gilt by Bayntun, covers elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, with central lozenge in gilt and blind, floral corner-pieces, spine with gilt lettering and ornamentations, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, in solander case. [Abbey Scenery 192; Tooley 219]

細節

FIELDING, Theodore Henry & J. WALTON. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, London: William Clowes for R. Ackermann, 1821, large 4°, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES, hand-coloured aquatint title vignette and 48 plates after Fielding and Walton (contemporary ownership inscriptions erased from title, directions leaf and first leaf of text), later straight-grained purple morocco gilt by Bayntun, covers elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, with central lozenge in gilt and blind, floral corner-pieces, spine with gilt lettering and ornamentations, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, in solander case. [Abbey Scenery 192; Tooley 219]

來源

Chas. Thurnham & Sons, Carlisle, bookseller's label to both endpapers.

拍品專文

Tooley: "Issued in 12 monthly parts in wrappers and on completion in boards, 750 at £3 13s. 6d. and 100 on large or elephant paper at £6 6s."