A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall

London: Paternoster-Row; and No. 9, Cleveland-Street, Fitzroy-Square: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and William Daniell, 1814. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. DANIELL William. A Magnificent series of plates, almost all of equal quality and the most important colour plate book on British topography - Tooley. First editions of Vols I-VI and VII. 8 volumes in 4, tall 4to, aquatint dedication, 308 hand coloured plates and one tinted lithographic plate (complete) by and after Daniell, the majority of the plates with grey wash borders, some scattered light spotting, contemporary half green crushed morocco gilt, spines gilt in six compartments, titled in two and with floral, foliate and naturalistic tools in the remainder, over green cloth, some edges lightly sunned, gilt edges, red marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplates to fpds (William Strang Steel) & CEA. V1/2, [3], (iv-v), [1], [1], 2-215, [1], [1] errata, [1]. (1815), [3], 4-223, [1] pl list. V3/4, (1818), [4], [1], 2-80. V4, (1820), [4], [1], 2-96. Vol 5/, (1821), [4], [1], 2-36. V6, (1822), [4], [1], 2-94. V7, (1826), [2], [1], 2-90. V8, (1825), [4], [1], 2-65 pp, [1]. (365*265 mm). (Abbey Scenery 16. Brunet II 488. Tooley 177. Upcott pxxxv). Without the index chart which was published separately to accompany the work, but, as Tooley notes, the chart 'is not normally included, the work being complete without it'. (Ayton's name does not appear on the t.-p. of v. 3-8, as he wrote the letterpress for v. 1-2 only.--Cf. Dict. nat. biog). The original intention was to make a coastal trip by sea, but it became clear early on in the venture that this was not practical, and most of the journey around the coast had to be made by road. The journey was completed in six separate trips, over the period 1813 to 1823. The final twist in the story of A Voyage Round Great Britain, was the discovery, in 1962, of 306 of the original 308 Daniell copper plates, the location of which had not been known for more than 100 years. They are now the property of the Tate.