Six Picturesque Views in North Wales,

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G, 1801, 1st ed, 6 pls. Original wrappers bound into new cream buckram, gilt title to spine. Internally, new brown endpapers, original brown paper wrappers a little chipped and marked, top corner missing, [5], 6-32 pp, 6 pls, (Sepia aquatints, dated 1801), light offsetting and occasional spot, text block edges uncut, plates watermarked 1816, text leaves '97, printed by T Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London, with the label of Peter Bicknell to cover verso. Title continues: engraved in Aquatinta by Alken, from drawings made on the spot: with poetical reflections on leaving that country: Plates are: Bedgelert Church, Conway Castle, Pulpit of Hugh Llwyd Merionethshire, Pont y Pair Carnarvonshire, The Fall of the River Machno Carnarvonshire & finally Pont y Glynn Dyffis near Corwen. (Graesse 548. Abbey519). (306*236 mm). Alken, who during the 1790s aquatinted a large number of plates for sets and books of picturesque views in the lakes, Wales, Ireland, Switzerland, and other places. These included some of his own compositions and a set of aquatints of drawings by the great popularizer of picturesque scenery William Gilpin, published in 1794. See ODNB for a full Bio.