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“The most important colour plate book on British topography”
A Voyage Round Great Britain,
Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and commencing from the Lands-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
London:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and William Daniell, No. 9, Cleveland-Street, Fitzroy-,
1814 [but 1818]–1825, 1825.
First edition, eight volumes in four, large 4to (365 by 260mm), dedication, large folding engraved chart of Great Britain and 308 aquatint plates, with fine original hand-colour, within grey wash borders (by and after William Daniell), occasional light damp-spotting to text, nineteenth-century straight-grained red morocco gilt, upper cover with five line gilt fillet border, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, richly gilt, all edges gilt.
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notes:
A finely bound set with early issues of the aquatints of "the most important colour plate book on British topography" (Tooley).
William Daniell (1769–1837) asked Ayton to contribute to the text descriptions in the work. However this partnership only lasted for the first two volumes as the two men disagreed over plans for the future of the work, and Ayton turned his attention to adapting comedies for the English Opera House. The text for the first two volumes is n...
William Daniell (1769–1837) asked Ayton to contribute to the text descriptions in the work. However this partnership only lasted for the first two volumes as the two men disagreed over plans for the future of the work, and Ayton turned his attention to adapting comedies for the English Opera House. The text for the first two volumes is n...
bibliography:
Abbey Scenery 16; Sutton 28; Tooley 177; Upcott p. xxxv.
provenance:
Bookplate of the Pierpont Morgan Library, together with note slip "The gift of Henry S. Morgan 1951".
