Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
IRELAND, Samuel (1744-1800). Picturesque Views on the River Medway, from the Nore to the Vicinity of its Source in Sussex: with Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its Neighbourhood. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1793. Large 8vo (226 x 155mm). Half title, additional sepia aquatint allegorical title, map, 28 plates, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (tissue guards stained and spotted but plates generally clean, some mainly marginal staining). Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with green morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers (neatly rebacked preserving old spine, spine and corners bumped). Provenance: "Philip, & D. G. 1793. Joliffe" (inscription on half title). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 428; Brunet II, 688; Prideaux p.341. With the same author's Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from its Source in Glocestershire [sic] to the Nore; with Observations on the Public Buildings and other Works of Art in its Vicinity (London, 1792, 2 volumes, large 8vo, 2 additional aquatint titles, 2 engraved maps, 51 aquatint plates, woodcut vignettes, errata leaf in each vol. (some spotting and staining), contemporary mottled calf gilt (quite heavily rubbed), armorial bookplate of George Townshend Browne, FIRST EDITION). (3)