A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of That Part of the Country, &c. &c Illustrated with Forty-Eight Coloured Views ….
London: R. Ackermann, 1821.
Price: $2,250.00
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First edition. Title-page vignette and 48 aquatint engravings, all finely hand colored. [viii], 288 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Half chestnut morocco, t.e.g., by Stanley Bray for Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Small stain at foot of title with ghost in margin of frontispiece not affecting the image, still a fine copy with the plates fresh and bright. Abbey, Scenery 192; Tooley 219.
Item #304429
Choice copy of this beautifully illustrated book on the Lake District, handsomely bound.
