A PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION OF THE RIVER WYE FROM THE SOURCE TO ITS JUNCTION WITH THE SEVERN by Fielding, T.H - 1841

London: Ackermann & Co., 1841. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good +. 109 and vii pages plus addenda. 10 plates. Gilt and blind-stamped lavender boards. Loss of cloth along upper spine and one spot in middle of spine. Short cloth split in center spine. Spine sunned. Lower rear board corner bumped, creased. Plates and adjacent leaves are foxed. A few foxed spots and dust darkening on closed fore-edges. Front hinge appears to have been professionally strengthened at some point. No page markings or creases. Additional photos available upon request. N-1 GDH

London: J.L. Cox, 1829. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Full leather with gold gilt decor on edges and spine. Gold gilt title on red leather label on spine. Marbled endpapers and page foredges. Complete with seventeen fold-out illustrations. Good only with boards detached from spine, leather worn, bookplate inside front cover.

London: M. A. Nattali, 1844. Hardcover. Fair (Boards are detached, but present; spine strip is missing; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; page edges are toned; occasional smudging is present in the interior; textblock is cracked; light marginalia to endpapers.). Dark Green Boards; 109 pp. with 10 bw plates and occasional bw figures. Covers etching, soft-ground etching, line engraving, chalk and stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, medallic engraving, electrography, and photography. Each section includes the history, process, manner of working, tools, and several other topics of information and instruction. Includes a main introduction on the invention of engraving.

London: Ackermann, 1841. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates on 10 leaves including engravings, lithographs, aquatints, mezzotints, etc. Pp. [viii], 109, [3, ads], 14 (ads). 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original tan cloth, titled in gilt. Faded, spine worn (small losses at head and foot), occasional light foxing. Very good minus. First edition. Illustrated with 12 plates on 10 leaves including engravings, lithographs, aquatints, mezzotints, etc. Pp. [viii], 109, [3, ads], 14 (ads). 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Comprehensive review of illustration techniques, including an early chapter on "photogenic drawing" covering the three pioneering methods of photography. Gernsheim, Incunabula 652; Abbey, Life 125

London: Frith Street, Soho Square: Howlett and Brimmer, 1825. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. FIELDING TH. 25 Hand coloured views of British Castles First edition, later issue, VG+, oblong modern oblong, half calf over grey boards, some gilt tooling, original red calf label with gilt tooling & titles. Spine gilt tooling, no titles. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi) only, [1], 2-72 pp, [1], 25 pls (hand coloured), each plate accompanied by thick paper guard and a leaf of descriptive text, plates dated 1823, text leaves watermarked 1824, plates watermarked 1822 or 1827, well coloured, new grey endpapers, occasional light edge browning, book label to fpd (JW Williamson, also evidence of book label removal). (207*264 mm). (Abbey Scenery 20; Tooley 214).

London: Frith Street, Soho Square: Howlett and Brimmer, 1825. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. FIELDING TH. Complete with 25 Super Coloured Plates Oblong, first edition, 1825, in attractive modern full long grained black morocco, retaining original red calf label with gilt tooling & titles to upper board. Spine, raised bands, gilt titles to black calf label. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi) only, [1], 2-72 pp, [1], 25 fine coloured aquatints of castles including six Welsh castles (four North Wales, some faint spotting to title and a few leaves, 1 leaf with a crease/printing flaw), t.e.g., new endpapers, original printed label to fpd, each plate accompanied by a thick paper guard and a leaf of descriptive text, text leaves watermarked 1822 & 24, coloured plates dated 1823 & watermarked 1822 & 27. (197*266 mm). (Abbey Scenery 20. Tooley 214).

London: Thomas McLean, 1825. Oblong 4to. 3/4 modern red goatskin with marbled boards by the art bookbinder, Sasha Mosalov. Original leather label preserved. Complete with 25 coloured aquatints in fine condition. Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, no. 20. With Burgh Castle as the frontispiece, as called for in Abbey.

London: Howlett and Brimmer, 1825. vi, 72pp, [2], colour plates. Modern rebind in half calf and cloth by Temple Bookbinders, raised bands, spine in six panels, single rule bordering bands, calf title label to upper cover, a.e.g., new marbled endpapers. Externally near fine, internally some light browning and very light foxing, mainly to page edges and text leaves, plates generally bright and clean. Complete with twenty-five coloured aquatints. Abbey Scenery 20; Tooley 214. First Edition. Half Calf and Cloth. Good+. Illus. by Fielding, T.H.. 4to (Oblong).

London: Howlett and Brimmer, 1825. First Edition. Half Morocco. . Very Good. Oblong 4to, 21 by 27 cm. vi, 72, [1] pp. 25 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontis, of ultra-Romantic castles, many of which were by then ruins, all of which were set in bucolic surroundings, whether by the windswept sea, a hillock, a meadow, etc. The work bespeaks the new-found fascination with the British architectural past and the incipient historicism, as perhaps captured well in the frontis comparison of arches from different periods. Contemporary half red-morocco, with title label on front board. Light to moderate foxing on text leaves and tissue guards. Plates are clean. Overall, a bright, lovely copy of a comparatively uncommon color plate book of that era.

London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. Quarto, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (270 x 210 mm). Half-title, title page with colored vignette, pp. (ii)- vi, 1-288, with 48 hand-colored colored aquatint plates. Old half leather, gilt, over marbled boards. Binding extremities rubbed, slight offset from the plates to facing pages, with an occasional spot in a text leaf, but internally fine. Lewis Richard Ashhurst bookplate. Abbey, Scenery 192; Tooley 219.