first edition Half Morocco
1815 · London
by Bellasis, George Hutchins
London: John Tyler, 1815. First edition. Half Morocco. Very Good. Oblong folio, 476 x 330 mm. Unpaginated, 12 pages, followed by six large hand-colored aquatint plates by Robert Havell after Bellasis, each with adjacent sheet of descriptive letterpress text. Scarce, with only a single copy found on OCLC First Search (at National Maritime Museum, and by single copy, we mean of the full suite of plates.) Original brown wrappers bound in. Repair to front brown wrap and title page. Occasional light foxing. Later half green morocco over cloth boards.
(Inventory #: 005920)