Sketches in North Wales. WITH Ten Views in the Vicinity of Bristol (but Wales)

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Two separate and very scarce titles JW Harding, Sketches in North Wales, 1810, First and only edition in half green calf over green marbled boards, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, ink tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, title leaf plus 6 leaves of letter press (text to versos only), 6 pls (hand coloured, some dated 1810), plates watermarked J Whatman 1808, original paper label tipped to fpd. (390*302 mm). (Not in Abbey. Lowndes p8690. Prideaux p339). 4 copies in UK institutions, & 1 in the US (Yale). WITH: Ten Views In The Vicinity of Bristol Drawn from Nature, 1831, Willm. Arnee Frank, loose printed wrapper, with [1] ff subscribers list, NO Bristol PLATES, but with 9 lithographed Welsh plates (uncoloured) by Frank 1 other (by Newman). With a letter from the NLW (1988) discussing the plates. (Abbey Scenery 73 for a complete example). Rare complete. Plate List, Drawn from Nature & on Stone by Frank, some printed by Hullmandel: 1.Beddgelert 2.Val Crucis Abbey 3.Pont Aberglaslyn 4.Cil Hepsta Fall 5.Llangollen 6.Harlech Castle 7.Cadir Idris (no names) 8.Aberystwyth (Bristol Lithographed & Published by WA Frank 6, Augustine's Parade) 9.Dolbadarn Castle & Lakes of Llanberys - with margin paper tear ** Snowden & Llyn Gwynant from the Beddgelert Road, Drawn & Published by Newman & Co 48, Watling St. London. Drawn and engraved by J.W. Harding.