Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, boards ruled in gilt, five raised bands ruled in gilt, four compartments w
1838 · London
by Pardoe, Miss (Julia). Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), illus
London: Published for the proprietors by George Virtue, 1838. First edition. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, boards ruled in gilt, five raised bands ruled in gilt, four compartments with floral gilt decorations, two with gilt titles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Very good, boards and extremities rubbed, owner's bookplate to free front end paper, small faint semicircular stain to fore edge of first two preliminary leaves, tissue guard and engraved title foxed and offset, faint dampstain to lower inner corner, marginal only, scattered foxing to plates, nearly all marginal or on blank backs, otherwise plates are crisp, text clean, binding sold. A very handsome copy.. 164 pp. + 81 lvs. Illus. with 81 steel engravings: port. frontis, title page vignette, 78 view plates, and 1 map. Sm. 4to. "This work had much influence in terms of increasing popular appreciation of its subject," (Blackmer Lib. p. 405). Atabey 922; CBEL (3rd) IV: 1378; Blackmer Coll. 1254; Blackmer Lib. 888. (Inventory #: 31686)