Beckford William).- Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional pictorial title and plate, 10 other uncoloured engraved plates including unnumbered plate of South West View (as usual), large folding lithographed map, wood-engraved vignettes, genealogical tables and list of subscribers at end, some foxing but mostly to tissue guards, with tipped-in printed slip advertising Fonthill sale catalogues marked with buyers' names & prices available from the author, original printed boards, uncut, rubbed and slightly stained, corners worn, rebacked preserving original label, [Abbey, Scenery 418], Shaftesbury, by the Author, 1823 § Hamilton Palace Libraries (The). [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the First [- Fourth] Portion of the Beckford Library, 4 parts in 1 vol., with printed lists of prices and buyers' names bound at end of each part (lacking that to part 3 and with 2 leaves of part 2 list misbound after title to part 3), later half calf, spine gilt, uncut, most original upper wrappers bound in (some frayed and chipped, one torn & defective and laid down), rubbed, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1882-83, 4to & 8vo (2)
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