Cambria Depicta: BOUND With Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains [grangerised]

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Depicta with hand coloured plates and with many Extra Illustrations Two volumes bound as One, first edition (both), large paper copy, quarto. Xvi, 476 pp. 71 hand coloured aquatint plates and extra illustrated with a double page hand coloured engraved map. 83 uncoloured engravings, 12 aquatint's (including 6 coloured). 3 Lithograph's (including 1 coloured), 3 pages of lithographed music and 13 ink sketches ( 1 coloured) by C Barrow, book label to verso fep (John & Myfaney Piper), plus the ink details of Barrow to ffep. Bound in mid 19 C brown calf, the covers tooled in blind and gilt, the spine divided into 5 panels, lettered in one on a red goatskin label, the others gilt tooled, marbled end leaves and edges (joints and corners worn, rubbed), upper board held by ties. In addition to the extra illustrations there are 3 ff of text accompanying the plates of costumes, published by Havell in 1815. There are also 2 labels taken from the boards of illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains & Views of Noblemen & Gentlemen's seats... North & South Wales. Bound with Jones Harry Longueville. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL SCENERY OF THE SNOWDON MOUNTAINS, accompanied by a description, topographical & historical of the county of Caernarvon. 15 uncoloured lithographs by Baynes & Walton after Jones, printed by Hullmandel & extra illustrated with 1 lithograph. 1st edition, folio viii, 54 pp London by Ibotson & Palmer for Charles Tilt & Thomas Stevenson, 1829. This volume was put together by Corbyn Barrow of Lancaster with the date 1857 on the front fly leaf. The ink sketches are signed by him & are dated between 1858 & 1864. They are competent landscape views, a number of them illustrating the coast line. The extra illustrations are taken from a number of books & also include single prints, some of which are annotated by Barrow with notes of where he bought them. This book is mentioned in Pipers Places p105: "Once again his initial interest [in the landscape of Snowdonia] had been aroused by his precursors. Before the war, in a second-hand bookshop in Hereford, he bought a copy of Pugh's Cambria Depicta which had hand-coloured aquatints and some engravings bound in by a previous owner." (Abbey Scenery 521. Tooley 386 uncoloured. Allibone 1702: Anderson 345. Bohn Natural History p130). (309*234 mm)