Welsh Scenery. From Drawings

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Tall 12mo, 1st ed, 35 pls, VG. In brown morocco, decorative blind and gilt tooling, title in gilt to center, corners and edges rubbed. Spine, raised bands, no title, decorative blind tooling with some gilt, edges worn. Internally, board edges and turn-ins with decorative gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Charles G Graves to fpd, not paginated, lacks half title, [5], (viii only), [2], followed by 35 plates each with a leaf of descriptive text, printed on one side only, marbled text block edges. 19.5*12.5 cm, uncommon in this size. (Lowndes 2200. Anderson 336. Hotten2) Batty, army officer and artist, wrote and illustrated topographical books about the scenery of France (1822); Germany (1823); Wales (1823); Hanover, Saxony, and Denmark (1828); and India; and Select Views of the Principal Cities of Europe (1830-33), to namer but a few. See ODNB.