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Cambria Depicta: A Tour Through North Wales, illustrated with Picturesque Views.

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Cambria Depicta: A Tour Through North Wales, illustrated with Picturesque Views.

by A Native Artist [PUGH Edward] c1761-1813

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London: No. 11, Strand: E. Williams, 1816. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. PUGH Edward. First edition complete with all 71 aquatints. In contemporary half maroon calf over worn marbled boards, tips repaired, edges bumped. Re-spines, old laid down, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [3], (iv-xv), [1], [1], 2-476 pp, 71 pls (un-coloured, complete), armorial bookplate to fpd (Garde), hinges strengthened, some light edge browning & spotting but not affecting images, engraved by Havell & Cartwright after Pugh. Preface watermarked 1811, text watermarked 1814, plates watermarked 1811/15/18, & dated 1813/14, (262*209 mm). (Abbey 521. Tooley 386 uncoloured. Allibone 1702) PUGH, Edward, miniature painter and topographer, whose association with John Boydell, the publisher of prints, led him in 1804 to commence his most important work, Cambria Depicta. Over the next nine years Pugh travelled extensively on foot through North Wales, and both wrote the substantial text and provided the original drawings. See ODNB.

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Bookseller
Madoc Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
007246
Title
Cambria Depicta: A Tour Through North Wales, illustrated with Picturesque Views.
Author
A Native Artist [PUGH Edward] c1761-1813
Illustrator
PUGH Edward
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
E. Williams
Place of Publication
London: No. 11, Strand
Date Published
1816
Size
4to - over 9¾" - 12&
Weight
4.41 lbs
Keywords
Wales Tour Welsh Topography travel Cambria Depicta

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