Lot 203
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[Lizars, William Home]
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Eight engravings of the ruins occasioned by the great fires in Edinburgh on the 15th, 16th & 17th November 1824. Edinburgh: published for the benefit of the sufferers, and sold by A. Constable & Co., [1825]. Oblong folio, 8 etchings (2 folded) by W.H. Lizars after drawings by James Hall, original wrappers, front cover with engraved title serving as title page, modern blue spine, some soiling to wrappers and fore-margins, occasional light spotting; [Slezer, John] Eight fine views of remarkable places in Scotland... Edinburgh: [N.p.], "1692" [but c.1718] Oblong folio, 6 etchings of Stirling, St Andrews, Ross, Glasgow and the Bass Rock, original wrappers, front cover serving as title page, date on title reads 1692 suggesting that this was printed before the first edition as a trial run but it is more likely to be a 1718 copy from original plates, very clean with minor creasing to cover; Chambers, Robert. Notices of the most remarkable fires in Edinburgh... including an account of the great fire of November 1824. Edinburgh: C. Smith, 1824. 12mo, original wrappers, wrappers soiled (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire