first edition Half Calf
London
by Nayler, Sir George
London: Samuel and Richard Bentley. First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. Large folio, 22.5 by 16.5 inches, or 57 by 42 cm. 13 hand-colored plates, plus large hand-colored illustration on title to plate section of the book. This volume was followed by a separate volume commemorating the same event issued three years later (1827), and the these two volumes were later collected, along with yet another work (Whittaker's plates of the same event) into a single volume in 1837, See Tooley 343. Calf is heavily scuffed in corner triangles and a few other spots, and rubbed particularly along hinges, with abrasions on the spine and a few spots of crud. Minor margin soiling of a few plates. A number of short closed tears in the margins -- most have been repaired but traces of them still discernible. Generally the plates are bright and clean, and this remains a collection of magnificent, exciting plates.
(Inventory #: 002404)