[Rarebooks] Batty's French Scenery, 1822, steel-engravings, in unusual binding

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Batty, Robert.   French Scenery from Drawings Made in 1819 by Captain Batty of the Grenadier Guards.   London: Rodwell & Martin, 1822.   With an engraved title-page and 64 steel-engraved plates, plus engraved vignette at the end.   Text in English and French. Large 8vo, bound in full contemporary green morocco, gilt lettered in one panel of the spine, with the other four richly tooled in gilt; the covers with a frame composed of multiple gilt rules and ornaments enclosing a large central panel of inlaid marbled paper, gilt turn-ins and matching marbled paper, a.e.g.   [126] pp.   Some minor to moderate foxing to the plates, the binding with some slight rubbing and dulling, but still a very good copy in an unusual binding. 







Batty produced a number of view books for the burgeoning market a illustrated travel, a market expanded by the new steel-engraving process and exploited even more successfully later by William Bartlett.   French Scenery was his first work, but he also produced volumes on German Scenery, Welsh Scenery, and provided illustrations for subsequent volumes covering Denmark, Belgium, South Holland, Italy, and India (Hunnisett, Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England , p. 133). 





  

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