London: Thomas McLean, 1839-49. First Edition of Nash’s greatest work, “which was highly successful, and has maintained its reputation.” (DNB) Copies were available with the plates hand-coloured. Joseph Nash, watercolour painter and lithographer, studied architecture under Augustus Pugin, whom he accompanied to France, and for whose work Paris and its Environs (1830) he supplied some of the drawings. He “earned celebrity by his picturesque views of late Gothic buildings, English and foreign, which he enlivened with figures grouped to illustrate the habits of their owners in bygone days, somewhat in the manner of Cattermole.” (Ibid.) cfAbbey, Scenery, 402 (hand-coloured issue). cfTooley 337 (hand-coloured issue). 4 Volumes. folio. 4 leaves (dedications on recto; plate lists on verso) & 103 (of 104) tinted lithographed plates (incl. 4 titles) printed by Hullmandel after Nash. lacking 1 plate in Vol. I (never bound in). contemporary half chagrin, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, light to moderate foxing). armorial bookplate of Bertram F. Barton

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Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB) (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: elala2208
Title: The Mansions of England in the Olden Time
Author: NASH, Joseph [1809-1878]
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition of Nash’s greatest work, “which was high
Publisher: London: Thomas McLean, 1839-49
Keywords: Illustrated Britain
Bookseller catalogs: Illustrated;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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