Author: Cooke, W.B. and Cooke, George.
Title: VIEWS ON THE THAMES; Engraved by ... London ... W.B. Cooke 1822. Folio. [iv] + 75 engraved plates (including additional engraved title page). Light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary half morocco with marbled boards, some surface wear, rebacked with original gilt lettered spine laid down, corners reinforced, sl. rubbed. [Together with]. DESCRIPTIONS TO THE PLATES OF THAMES SCENERY. Engraved by W.B. Cooke & G. Cooke From Original Drawings by Eminent Artists. London ... John Murray .... and W.B. Cooke ... 1818. 8vo. 7pp. Adverts. to rear [see note]. Additional engraved title page (sl. foxed). Light browning, contemporary marbled boards with morocco corners, rebacked in modern gilt lettered morocco, minor wear, sl. rubbed.
Description: , Together 2 vols. ¶ Text volume with the bookplate of Birket Foster. 7pp. advertisement for ‘Views in London and its Vicinity inserted to rear of volume. Addressed to verso ‘Mr Pickering’. The text volume has a letter tipped into the rear ‘Dear Sir I shall be much obliged if you will place this concluding in the way of being noted in the gent mag for the sake of the widow & family. You may remember poor George Cooke died suddenly in consequence of taking cold when going from an artists conversazione to his own house at Barry in the evening, leaving a large family, respy Tho. Huntsman for Longmans & Co.’

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