LAKE SCENERY OF ENGLAND. Drawn on Stone by T. Picken

Day & Sons, Lithographers to the Queen, 1859

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Year of publication

1859

Place of printing

London

Author

[English Views] Pyne

Publishers

Day & Sons, Lithographers to the Queen

Edition

FIRST EDITION. TWENTY-FIVE VERY IMPRESSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL TINTED

First edition

Yes

Description

First edition. With a beautiful tinted lithographic frontispiece burnished in copper, 25 very fine hand tinted lithographic plates and a woodcut scenic headpiece to the introduction. Small folio, in very attractive decorative full vellum by Birdsall, the front cover and spine with floral art nouveau trails in gilt with red colour inlays, the covers also gilt ruled and with gilt ruled lines at the head and tail of spine, a single green morocco spine label gilt lettered, gilt tooled turn-ins and board edges, beautiful softly marbled endpapers and gilt page edges finish this lovely Northampton binding. vii, [2ff], [25ff, 25 plates]. A very beautiful copy, the Birdsall binding in lovely condition with only pleasing age to the vellum, the paper very clean with only the lightest occasional aging.