Lot 102
Pennant, Thomas, & Francis Grose
Pictorial surveys of Scotland, large-paper copies
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX. London: Benj. White, 1790. Fifth edition, 4to, large-paper copy, 42 engraved plates (some cropped and mounted on paper), lacking folding map of Scotland and northern England, extra-illustrated with several plates and maps from 18th- and 19th-century publications, 19th-century tan calf, gilt spine, joints cracking, press clippings loosely inserted, armorial bookplate of Thomas Fitzgerald [ESTC T110282];
Ibid. A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. London: printed for Benj. White, 1790, 2 volumes each with a separate engraved title-page, register and pagination, 4to, large-paper copy, engraved plates, lacking frontispieces to each part as called for in the lists of plates, lacking plate 14 for part 1, extra-illustrated with several plates and maps from 18th- and 19th-century publications, uniformly bound with the preceding work with continuous numbering on spines [ESTC T110281];
Grose, Francis. The Antiquities of Scotland. London: printed for S. Hooper, 1789. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, large-paper copy, engraved plates, lacking map in volume 1, contemporary diced russia with gilt tooling, plate of Littledean Tower misbound in vol. 1, spines of bindings sunned [ESTC T141301] (5)