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J Murray, 1849-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. [1] leaf of plates, 490, xiv pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. In English and Latin. With 8 illuminated title pages by Owen Jones, 465 antique designs on wood by George Scharf, and vari-colored borders to the text. Lacking spine. Original decorative boards.

Gul Sandby, 1749. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Full calf with tooled gilt border have been re-backed with darker spines and maroon labels. With bookplates in each of N Kendall And Arthur Quiller Couch. Also in each is a printed poem pasted to front end paper with a written title Thomas ? Couch. Couch's inscription to volume one. 34 plates with no plate no. 32 (If there was one). Corners bumped and rubbed. Light foxing to pages..

Londini : [prostant apud Gul. Sandby in vico dicto Fleetstreet., 1749. SCARCE early edition, much favored for its engravings Title-pages in red and black (both with large engraved portrait of Horace), vi, [4], 156, 157-396. Typis Jacobi Bettenham, Aug. 10, 1749. Variant: the list of plates following the dedication is printed on two leaves. With engraved frontispiece Vol. I of a group of 12 angels, the central angel playing a harp, and 35 full-page engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, single gilt rule covers, smooth spine with gilt rules in seven compartments, plain pale yellow endpapers, marbled edges. The bookplate of Charles Dymoke Williaume front pastedowns and a three initial period bookplate "EHF" front end pages. Very Good Plus, spines a bit sunned, light edge wear. . First Sandby Edition . Straight - Grain Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.