ABBEY, J.R. | Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 First Limited Edition ofJ.R. Abbeyís ìScenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and LithographyîABBEY, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. From the Library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1952.First edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy being No. 126). Large quarto (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 317 x 244 mm.). xx, 399, [1, blank] pp. Color frontispiece, thirty-four black and white collotype plates, with tissue guards, and fifty-four text illustrations. Title printed in red and black within a decorative border.Original gray-brown cloth with crimson morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Mild wear to extremities, one tiny spot on spine. A near fine copy. In the original printed dust jacket (jacket with some edge wear and soiling, closed tear and creasing to rear panel, one small chip to head of spine, and another small chip to rear panel at upper joint).ìIn this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word ëSceneryí is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. I have found it a fascinating subject and a field in which there seem to have been few serious collectors. Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogueÖMy original idea of recording all books of the period with illustrations printed in aquatint and lithograph printed in two colours has been extended to include examples in which special copies were coloured by hand after printing and, in the case of lithographs, I have included those coloured and even one or two outstanding books containing uncoloured lithograph illustrationsî (Preface, pp. xv-xvi). 1952 first edition Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 00079    inquire

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