Lot 514
Lawson, John Parker
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views by J.M.W. Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., David Roberts R.A. [etc] Drawn in lithography by J.D. Harding... With historical, antiquarian and descriptive letterpress by J.P. Lawson. Edinburgh: Alexander Crichton, 1847-54. First editions in book form, 2 volumes, large folio (630 x 460mm.), half-title to volume 1, 90 tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards, rebound in black cloth with marbled paper from the sides of the original binding trimmed and laid on and with some panels from original binding laid on spines, some foxing on about a third of the plates, varying from light to heavier, but mainly in the margins
Footnote
Note:As Abbey notes, the list of plates calls for 91 but plate 4 was never issued as it was a duplication of plate 3, thus making 90 the complete complement. Originally issued in parts. Abbey, Scenery, 493