Full Leather
1809 · London
by William Gilpin
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A clean copy. Filled with numerous aquatint plates of the ruins, abbeys, and countryside of Gilpin's Two Tours. Bound in speckled calf with decorations and rules, and a black morocco label on the spine. The spine is attractively rebacked in calf. Decorative perimeter to the front and rear boards, edges and turn-ins rolled, all in gilt.Wear to the leading corners of the boards.Some foxing to the preliminaries. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Very Good binding. (Inventory #: 283076)