Lot 188
Pyne (James Baker) The English Lake District, first edition, deluxe issue with hand-coloured plates mounted on thick card as issued, Manchester, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1853.
Hammer Price: £7,000
Description
Pyne (James Baker) The English Lake District, first edition, deluxe issue, lithograph pictorial title and 24 plates, all finely hand-coloured and mounted on thick card as issued, letterpress text with wood-engraved vignettes, occasional foxing, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, upper joint splitting, rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery 196 (for 1859 edition); Tooley 387; Bobins 1702], large folio, Manchester, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1853.
⁂ A monumental and magnificent production, with text by Charles Swain, a poet and engraver, to accompany the spectacular plates lithographed by William Gauci. The grandeur, beauty and romance of the English Lakes is perfectly captured by Pyne's illustrations.
Description
Pyne (James Baker) The English Lake District, first edition, deluxe issue, lithograph pictorial title and 24 plates, all finely hand-coloured and mounted on thick card as issued, letterpress text with wood-engraved vignettes, occasional foxing, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, upper joint splitting, rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery 196 (for 1859 edition); Tooley 387; Bobins 1702], large folio, Manchester, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1853.
⁂ A monumental and magnificent production, with text by Charles Swain, a poet and engraver, to accompany the spectacular plates lithographed by William Gauci. The grandeur, beauty and romance of the English Lakes is perfectly captured by Pyne's illustrations.
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