Symptoms of Being Amused
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
Sporting, Domestic, and other humorous coloured sketches In oblong 4to, half red morocco over red cloth (by Riviere & Sons), gilt tooling, corners worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, worn along extremities. Internally, lacks the…
The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of the Horse Comparatively Delineated in a series of Coloured Plates
ALKEN Henry 1785-1851
An exquisite Alken rarity [1816]. First edition. Quarto. Recent half calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments, with raised bands, black morocco label, all edges gilt; elaborate engraved title page, comprising an engraved roundel title, encompassed by…
[Six Landscapes]
ALKEN S [Samuel] 1756-1815
6 wonderful landscape scenes in aquatint In the original printers blue wrappers, oval publishers ticket to upper cover. Internally, six sepia tinted aquatints, no titles to the images, ruled borders, dated 1795, watermarked J Whatman. Housed…
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in Great Britain and Wales in a collection of Select Views. With Select views Bath & Bristol. With Collection of Views
ANGUS W. [William] 1752-1821; WITH WATTS W; WITH BOYDELL John and Josiah
VG, 3 volumes as one, 1st eds, 64 pls, 1787, 94 & 92 In oblong contemporary dark green straight grained morocco gilt, with the gilt cipher ''XS'' surmounted by a crown at the head of the spine, a.e.g., Internally, bound without the half title,…
The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire.
ATKYNS Sir Robert 1647-1711
VG, 2nd ed, 73 pls 1 additional. In contemporary speckled calf, corners repaired, edges scuffed.Skilfully rebacked preserving original morocco gilt title label, raised bands, gilt tooling. [10], [1], 2-452 pp, [6] index, 73 pls (mostly…
Plas Mawr, Conway, N. Wales
BAKER Arthur and BAKER Sir Herbert 1862-1946
An edition limited to 200 copies. In its red cloth covers with bevelled edges, gilt coat of arms, a little bumped and worn at edges and corners, a few marks. Relaid spine, retaining most of the old, titles in gilt. Internally, yellow endpapers, ink…
The Fine Arts. Forty-Eight Aquatint Coloured Engravings, by Theodore Fielding, from a Work Containing Forty-Eight Subjects of Landscape Scenery, Principally Views In and Near Bath. Painted in Oil, by Benjamin Barker.
BARKER Benjamin 1776-1838
48 SUPERB hand coloured plates of Landscape Scenery in and around Bath. First Edition, oblong, printed title, verso blank, forty-eight aquatint colored engravings, by Theodore Fielding, all mounted on original brown paper and framed within an…
Forty Lithographic Impressions From Drawings Selected From His Studies of Rustic Figures After Nature
BARKER Thomas 1769-1847
One of the Very Few Copies With Additional Shading by the Artist. Of a small overall edition of one hundred and seventeen copies, this is one of a handful of copies additionally enhanced by the artist with additional shading to more clearly make…
Chepstow. Tintern Abbey. Llantony Abbey Abergavenny. [Artists Sketch Book]
BATTY Robert
Contemporary marbled boards, ms label, working metal clasp. Modern spine. Upper board MS label reads: 1807, 18 (his age). Chepstow, Tintern Abbey, Llantony Abbey, Abergavenny, 18th-26th July 1807. On the inner board he has written R. Batty began…
The Passions, Humourously Delineated
BOBBIN Timothy (ie COLLIER John) 1708-1786
The Passions of Manchester in 25 hand coloured illustrations First edition, 1810, Quarto, [34] pp, engraved portrait frontispiece, hand coloured engraved dedication leaf, & twenty five hand coloured engraved plates, watermarked 1805 and 1806,…
Welsh Scenery (Chiefly in Snowdonia)
BONNEY TG 1833-1923 & WALTON Elijah 1832-1880
1st ed, 1875, 20 plates, VG. In full red morocco, rounded edges, blind tooling, gilt title, corners and edges lightly rubbed. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling, gilt titles, edges rubbed. Internally, [5], [1], 20 plates (coloured) each…
Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 20 years shooting and collecting in the British Islands.
BOOTH E.T. Edward Thomas 1840-1890
One of the major 19th century source works of British ornithology. With 114 Hand Coloured Lithographed Plates 1881-1887, VG, First edition, 3 volumes in the original fifteen parts, collates as per Ellis/Mengel, with 114 hand coloured lithographed…
A Collection of Views in Wales
BOYDELL John 1720-1804
11 of the best Welsh plates by Boydell In green cloth, gilt title to upper cover and spine. Internally, 11 plates, (from Boydell's Collection of Views - pages 52-62 inclusive), wide margins, some light staining to L margins, occasional spot & some…
Six Picturesque Views in North Wales
BROUGHTON Rev Brian 1767-1839
1st ed, 1801, 6 pls, G. In contemporary half red morocco over green marbled boards, corners & edges worn, some loss. Spine, gilt tooling & titles, worn along edges. Internally, [5], 6-32 pp, 6 pls (sepia aquatints, dated 1801), red marbled…
Four Picturesque Views in North Wales..
BROUGHTON Rev Brian 1767?-1839
Engraved in Aquatinta by Alken, from Drawings made on the spot. With Poetical reflections on leaving that country. In modern grey oblong cloth covers, with photocopied title to top cover and spine. Internally new endpapers, title page has a 7.5"…