The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain.

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2 vols, VG, 126 pls 1 woodcut. In half calf (by W. Branch), over red marbled boards, some blind tooling, corners & edges rubbed. Spines, gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles to maroon calf labels. Internally, Vol 1, 1842, portrait frontis, additional engraved titlepage, [4], [1], 2-190 pp, 65 pls (of 66, including frontis & eng tp) 1 woodcut. Vol 2, 1844, frontis, engraved title page, [4], [1], 2-155 pp, [1], [2], [1], (2-65) Royal Court Guide and Fashionable Directory 1843, with a list of subscribers to Finden's Forts, Harbours...., 61 pls (of 61). All edges sprinkled red, small removed label mark to each spine, some occasional spotting offsetting and light edge browning, evidence of removed bookplates to fpds, binders stamp to fpds, plates in Vol 1 not dated, pls in V2 dated from 1840-1842. (266*206 mm). (Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 33564) A revised ed., much enlarged, of William and Edward Finden's Views of ports and harbours ... on the English coast (London, 1838),