Views of the Principal Seats in the County of Palatine of Lancashire.

Folio (360 x 265 mm), letterpress title page followed by 164 lithographed plates (including one duplicate, Clayton Hall, no. 8 in the series, which is not numbered), some plates tinted, some with light spotting, marbled endpapers, contemporary half hard-grained black morocco, slightly rubbed, marbled edges, spine gilt extra, a nice copy. This extremely rare and lavish production appears to be a re-issue of Twycrossís Lancashire plates, by Bartlett in 1853, without the text. Twycross issued his The Mansions of England and Wales in 1846-50, he intended to complete a series of books covering all Counties of England and Wales but due to his death in 1852 he only completed Lancashire, Cheshire and Cornwall. The 164 plates illustrate 126 houses with many being illustrated by two different plates, ìthese lithographs are exceptionally good and the plates show only country houses.îóCooper. Provenance: From the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers. Holmes, p.3; Cooper I, 97.