Author: N.A.
Title: Descriptive Letterpress to Views
Description: N.P. N.P. Hard Cover . Thick, small octavo, dark green bevelled morocco with plain gilt rules, brass clasp, all edges gilt. Likely a compendium/bound collection of descriptive letterpresses associated with T. Nelson & Son's extensive series of 'views' publications, containing (either headed Description of Letterpress or Description of Plates or Views): The City of London; Sights Near London; Views on the Thames; The Interior of The Crystal Palace; The Grounds of the Crystal Palace; Windsor and Eton; City of Oxford; Views in Cambridge; Warwick, Leamington, and Kenilworth; Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; Cheltenham; The City of Bristol; Views of the City of Bath; Views of Plymouth and the Neighbourhood; Scenery of Cornwall; Hastings and St. Leonards; Ben-Rhydding and the Neighbourhood; Bangor and the Neighbourhood; Old Castles of England; Old Abbeys of England; Views in the North of Ireland; Views in the Isle of Wight, South and Back of the Island; Views in the Isle of Wight, North and West of the Island; Trip Round the Isle of Wight, Northern Side of the Island; Views in the Isle of Wight as Described by the Rev. Legh Richmond; The English Lakes in the neighbourhood of Penrith and Keswick; The English Lakes in the Neighbourhood of Ambleside; The Lakes of Killarney; Environs and Vicinity of Edinburgh; Views of Loch Lomond; Scenery of the Clyde - Broomielaw to Arran; Falls of Clyde and the Neighbourhood; Views in Ayrshire; Scenery of Perthshire - Dunkeld to Glen Tilt; Views of the Trosachs and Neighbourhood; Perth and Strathearn &c; Stirling, Bridge of Allan, &c; Abbotsford and Scenery of the Tweed; Views of Braemar and City of Aberdeen; Views in Paris; City of Philadelphia; Views on the Hudson. The volume has a couple engraved vignettes only. Texts for each section almost all 16pp. each. Binding worn with a little insect predation in hinges, but still very sound. Brass could be cleaned. Some intenal foxing and staining, though very inextensive. Owner signature in pencil at firstblank preceding first half-title.

Keywords: Descriptions Scotland Victorian Nineteemth Century Bindings Travel Bindings


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