[Rarebooks] fa: IRELAND ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 1831 - w/ 80+ Engraved Views

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, June 19. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


G. N. Wright: Ireland Illustrated, from Original Drawings, by G. Petrie, W. H. Bartlett, & T. M. Baynes. [engraved title: Ireland Illustrated in a Series of View, Cities, Towns, Dublin Buildings, Streets, Docks, Churches, Antiquities, Abbeys, Towers, Castles, Seats of the Nobility, &c. &c.] London: H. Fisher, Son, and Jackson, 1831. First edition; 4to (27.5 cm) in 1/2 forest green morocco and marbled boards, top page edges gilt; [4], 80 pp.; extra engraved title-page (dated 1829, per usual), plus 80 steel-engraved plates on 40 leaves (complete).

Rubbing to the boards, bumping to the corners, front outer joint cracked at the bottom but the board is secure; damp-stain to the margins of the frontispiece and engraved title, lighter damp-staining to the corners of some plates, occasional faint foxing and touches of soiling and toning, otherwise quite clean and sound, firmly bound. Often found lacking some plates, this copy has the full complement of 40 plate leaves (41 if you count the engraved title-page).