Observations on the Western Parts of England, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. To which are added a few Remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight
( Isle of Wight ) ( West Country ) GILPIN, William
EXCEPTIONALLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN PERIOD BINDING WITH BOOKPLATE
Published: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies Strand, 1798
Stock code: 51766
Price: £495.00
8vo., First Edition, with 18 fine tinted aquatint plates; handsomely bound in nineteenth-century full calf, sides with multiple frame border in gilt, expertly rebacked to style with raised bands all ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt doublures, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, an exceptionally crisp, clean copy.
With the fine engraved nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Gilbert Ansley on front paste-down. The last page of text carries the publisher's catalogue of Gilpin's works. Anderson, 47; Upcott, xxxviii.