Welsh Scenery (Chiefly in Snowdonia)

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Rather than being just a travel guide, this is an artistic celebration of the mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Snowdonia (now Eryri National Park). First edition, 1875, 20 plates, VG. In full red morocco (by Phillipson & Golden, Chester), some marks, 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 accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, red marbled endpapers, gilt tooling to turn-ins, small binders label of to fpd, gilt tooling to morocco turn ins, a.e.g., some light spotting & offsetting. (Anderson 338). Walton, landscape painter, illustrated 7 books for his friend TG Bonney. Bonney, geologist and active mountaineer. See ODNB for a full bio.