SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE by Abbey, J. R - 1952

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972 reprint of the 1952 first edition (which was limited to 500 copies). Cloth, 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland. From his preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. ... Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. It is perhaps true to say that the thirty-five plates are a microcosm of the… Read More

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972 reprint of the 1952 first edition (which was limited to 500 copies). Cloth, 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland. From his preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. ... Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. It is perhaps true to say that the thirty-five plates are a microcosm of the… Read More

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. A very good, sound copy. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972 reprint of the 1952 first edition (which was limited to 500 copies). Cloth, 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland. From his preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. ... Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. It is perhaps true to say that the thirty-five plates are a microcosm of the… Read More

Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972 reprint of the 1952 first edition (which was limited to 500 copies). Cloth, 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland. From his preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. ... Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. It is perhaps true to say that the thirty-five plates are a microcosm of the… Read More

Privately Printed At the Curwen Press, London, first edition, 1952. Limited edition of 500 copies. Cloth, original morocco spine-label, top edge gilt, large 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. This first edition - much superior to later reprints - of Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, describes what one reviewer called a " a quite astonishingly rich collection of 556 books of English topographical illustration". From Abbey's preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. ... Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that… Read More

Privately Printed At the Curwen Press, London, first edition, 1952. Limited edition of 500 copies. Cloth, original morocco spine-label, top edge gilt, large 4to,. colour frontispiece, xx, 399 pp, 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries. This first edition - much superior to later reprints - of Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" books on the scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, describes what one reviewer called a " a quite astonishingly rich collection of 556 books of English topographical illustration". From Abbey's preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. ... Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that… Read More