Cambria Depicta: A Tour through North Wales, illustrated with Picturesque Views.

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VG, 1st ed, 1816, 71 pls (uncoloured). In half calf, some blind tooling, with maroon morocco cloth, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to maroon calf label, light wear to edges. Internally, frontis, [3], (iv-xv), [1], [1], 2-467 pp, 71 pls (of 71 aquatints, uncoloured), tissue guarded, bookplate to fpd (Isaac Evans), also the original spine label as well as an ink name (GA Humphreys), later orange endpapers, frontis with small marginal tear and corner edge lacking, text block edges uncut, some edge browning, plates dated 1814 or 15, text leaves watermarked 1814, printed by W Clowes, Northumberland-Court. (Abbey 521. Prideaux 348. Tooley 386. Allibone 1702. Bobins 704). Pugh exhibited twenty-three pictures, mainly miniature portraits at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1808. Another of his pictures was exhibited posthumously in 1821. Pugh supplied the drawings for Modern London, 1805, and, inspired by Boydell, wrote Cambria Depicta: A Tour through North Wales . which, illustrated with over seventy of the author 's own drawings, was published posthumously in 1816. According to the preface, the work took him nine years to complete. See NLW WBO.