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Some Account of London, Westminster, and Southwark: (4 Vols complete)

PENNANT [Thomas] 1726-1798

  • Publisher: Illustrator
  • Published: 1814 , London.
  • Condition: Very Good
London.: Illustrator, 1814. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. SMITH N. DUNBARTON R. etc. VG, 4 vols, 1814, 243 pls, 4 maps. In uniform contemporary calf with decorative blind & gilt tooling, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn. Spines relaid, retaining old, gilt decorative tooling, gilt titles. Vol 1, frontis, [4], (vi) only, [1], 2-68 pp, 2 maps, 68 pls (includes 29 portraits of which 5 are hand coloured). Vol 2, frontis, [2], 69-120 pp, 63 pls (of which 30 are portraits of which 7 are hand coloured). Vol 3, frontis, [2], 121-220 pp, 1 map, 62 pls (of which 18 are portraits with 3 hand coloured, of the 44 plates, 3 are hand coloured). Vol 4, frontis, [2], 221-381 pp, [1] advert, 1 map, 49 pls (of which 9 are portraits - 4 coloured and of the 40 other plates 1 is coloured). Hinges reinforced at some earlier stage, marbled endpapers, gilt tooling to turn-ins, some offsetting, light occasional foxing, on thick paper, with a water mark dated 1805, title pages in red and black inks within black ruled border, all edges in gilt, plates dated 1792-1815, occasional pencil notes. Title continues: Illustrated with Portraits, Views, Historical Prints, Medals, &c. Together with an Appendix and Index. One of 175 copies with an appendix and enlarged index, reissued in quarto from the 5th edition of 1813, for the use of illustrators. Who bought the edition without any illustrations of prints whatsoever and then bought the illustrations individually from the publisher to install. With the usual 435/436 pagination error. (Lowndes 2459. Allibone 2183/960. Sabin 88563).

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