Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains: accompanied by a description, topographical and historical, of the county of Caernarvon

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Complete, With Fifteen Superb Lithographed Mountain plates 1829, VG, tall copy with wide margins, First edition, folio, in half calf over green marbled boards, some blind tooling, contemporary printed label to upper board. Spine, blind tooling, no title. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-viii), [1], 2-54 pp, 15 lithographed plates of mountain scenery (including frontis), edges uncut, some light offsetting, spotting and light damp stain throughout, printed by Ibotson and Palmer, bookplate to fpd (Sir John Conroy). (420*338 mm). (Anderson 345. Bohn Natural History p130). The Subscriber list accounts for 150 copies. Jones was a Welsh archaeologist, artist, Inspector of Schools for Wales and leading founding member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. [ref: 600] £400