A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the adjacent Country: illustrated with a set of Views, taken in the Summer of 1792; by Mess. Ibbetson, Laporte, and J. Hassell; and engraved in aquatinta.
by [LARGE-PAPER COPY] Ibbetson, Julius, John Laporte, & John Hassell
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London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter, 1793.. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. [iv], 266, [2]pp. With the half-title present. Large-paper copy. Small-paper copies were in black-and-white. Errata printed on bottom of recto of last leaf. Original boards, rebacked in cloth. With sixteen hand-colored aquatint plates. This finely produced guide to fashionable Bath 'contains sixteen hand-coloured aquatints of much merit' (Martin- Hardie). All sixteen of the plates were aquatinted by Hassell, fourteen being taken from his own drawings with one after Laporte with one after Ibbetson. In a further eight drawings Ibbetson also inserted the figures into the landscapes. Abbey, Scenery 38; Prideaux, p. 339; Martin-Hardie, p. 140; ESTC T54291; Toovey 277. Although not credited the text is very probably also by Ibbertson, he describes a journey from London and with some flair he details the chief places of interest in and about Bath.
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- Sam Gatteno Books (US)
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- A Picturesque Guide to Bath, Bristol Hot-Wells, the River Avon, and the adjacent Country: illustrated with a set of Views, taken in the Summer of 1792; by Mess. Ibbetson, Laporte, and J. Hassell; and engraved in aquatinta.
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- [LARGE-PAPER COPY] Ibbetson, Julius, John Laporte, & John Hassell
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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- London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter, 1793.
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