LONDON, THE THAMES - Walter G. BELL (1867-1942). The Thames from Chelsea to the Nore, London, 1907, 4to, mounted coloured frontispiece, 30 lithographed plates, morocco gilt. ONE OF 310 COPIES. With 8 other books of related interest, leather-bound. (9)

LONDON, THE THAMES - Walter George BELL (1867-1942).  The Thames from Chelsea to the Nore. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. 4to (278 x 215mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece, title printed in red and black, and 30 lithographed plates by Thomas R. Way. Attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in dark blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, original blue cloth gilt wrappers bound in at the end (spine faded, some light staining to boards). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 310 COPIES, this copy unnumbered. With 8 other books of related interest, all bound in half morocco or half calf, including John Fisher Murray's A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames in its Western Course (London, 1862, large 8vo, wood-engraved plates COLOURED BY HAND, maps, later half blue morocco gilt), G. H. Birch's London on Thames in Bygone Days (London, 1903, 4to, coloured plates, later blue half morocco gilt) and W. L. & M. A. Wyllie's London to the Nore (London, 1905, large 8vo, coloured plates, later brown half morocco gilt with ship motifs in the compartments of the spine). (9)