Lot 353
Turner de Lond, William
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Six views on the new line of road communicating between Stirling and Carlisle. Edinburgh: Nimmo, [watermark 1825]. Oblong folio, 6 lithographed plates, original blue paper wrappers with printed title, slight marginal dustsoiling and dampstaining, part of lower cover corners of upper wrapper torn away
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: In 1814, a Parliamentary committee reported on the bad state of the Carlisle to Glasgow road, whereupon £50,000 was given to improve it. William Turner de Lond appears to have been active in Edinburgh between 1822-1825, and Edinburgh City Library and the National Library of Scotland retain a number of lithographed and aquatinted prints by him. The Letterpress describes this work as "No II", presumably there may have been a "No I", but no such work has been discovered. Not in Abbey.