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Published by George Routledge and Co., London, 1854
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Birkett Foster & E. Corbould (illustrator). Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. Illustrated by Birkett Foster & E. Corbould. Frontispiece and seven plates. 8vo. [168 x 104 x 47 mm.] viii, 128, [4], 108, 91, [1], 44, 190 pp. Bound in contemporary dark green goatskin over slightly bevelled boards, the covers blocked in blind with a double fillet border and a Gothic window panel surrounded by a line of semi-circles. The spine divided into five panels, lettered in gilt in the second and at the foot, the others tooled in blind, glazed marbled endleaves, gilt and gauffered edges. Occasional light spotting but a very good copy. The Gothic window panel is the same as used on the volume of Thomson etc, but it is surrounded by an additional row of semi-circles, which goes to show that more than one block was required. With the bookplate of the Earl of Portsmouth (either Newton Fellowes, 4th Earl (1772-1854) or Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl (18251891) of Farleigh House, Hampshire).