A Collection of Forty-Eight Views of Noblemens and Gentlemens Seats,

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VG, 1st ed, 1806, 48 pls. In contemporary red morocco, decorative blind & gilt edge tooling, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt title & tooling, small red mark poss from removed label at base. Frontis, [2], 48 B&W plates, dated 1792, 95, 1806 and some not dated, accompanied by 43 leaves of descriptive text, followed by 1 Index page & 1 page Subjects - where situated and by whom painted etc., gilt tooling to board edges & turn-ins, purple endpapers, a.e.g., attractive French bookplate (of MT 1899) to fpd, some light offsetting, edge browning & spotting as usual. (Lowndes 1076/77. Anderson 335). Title continues: Towns, Castles, Churches, Monasteries and Romantic Places in North and South Wales. Colt Hoare, had a particular fondness for Wales, and made a significant contribution to its travel literature with his translation of Gerald of Wales, published as Giraldus de Barri, Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales AD 1188 (1806). He provided the illustrations for William Coxe's Historical Tour of Monmouthshire (1801) and did the same for his friend Roger Fenton in his Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire (1811). He bought a fishing-lodge at Bala in 1796. See ODNB for a full Bio.