The Northern Cambrian Mountains, or A tour through North Wales, describing the scenery and general characters of that romantic country, and embellished with a series of highly-finished coloured views, engraved from original drawings,

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Probably the best North Wales topographical plate book In contemporary worn half calf, over worn marbled boards, corners & edges a little bumped & worn. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to red calf label, cracked along upper joint. Internally, title, dedication & preface leaves followed by thirty hand coloured plates each with a leaf of descriptive text (printed both sides and in 2 columns), not paginated, plates dated 1815 or 1816, & some watermarked Whatman 1811/1814/1817, bookplate to fpd (WB Dukes), occasional spot mainly to blanks, upper hinge going held by ties Drawn by T. Compton. Engraved by I. Baily, Daniel Havell, or T. Cartwright. A lovely example, with clean plates, depicting wonderful views. (oblong, 329*241 mm). (Tooley 155. Bobins 632. Not listed at Prideaux).