Daniell, William - and Richard Ayton
A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813
£3,780
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
and Commencing from the Land's-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. London: Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme and Brown, and William Daniell, 1814-1825. Text and plate volumes [8 text volumes bound in two; plates loose in two marbled quarter calf boxes], text volumes with titles to each volume, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands in 5 compartments, prelims foxed, some browning to volume iv, extremities rubbed; 308 hand-coloured aquatints, each 26 x 37cm, by and after William Daniell, numbered in manuscript, loose in two marbled quarter calf boxes, labels to spines, without uncoloured stipple-engraving of "Kemaes Head, Pembrokeshire" found in some copies, first plate burnt at upper right corner (hardly affecting image), some foxing and offsetting, boxes worn [Abbey, Scenery, 16; Tooley 177] (4)