Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales: With the Scenery of the River Wye. With 50 Engravings From Drawings by Roscoe, Thomas

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London: Birmingham.: C Tilt, and Simpkin and Co., 1837. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RADCLYFFE. CATTERMOLE. COX. CRESWICK. Etc.. 1st ed, 1837, VG, 48 pls. In contemporary maroon morocco, some blind tooling, gilt coat of arms to upper & lower covers, corners and edges bumped and worn very lightly. Spine, edges bumped, gilt tooling and title, faded slightly. Internally, half title, frontis, additional engraved title page, [16], 268 pp, [2], 48 pls and maps, as called for, yellow endpages, bookplate to fpd (Arne eld Sandstrom), printed by Wrightson and Webb, New Street, Birmingham, a.e.g. A very nice copy, all clean & tight with a lovely set of clean plates. (Graesse 162. Lowndes 2127). Roscoe, writer and translator, whose nine annual contributions (each a solid volume) to the Landscape Annual (1830-38) were most extensively devoted to Italy and Spain, but he also produced books on Wales (1837-8), Windsor Castle (1838), and English railway companies (1839).… Read More

London: C. Tilt, and Simpkin and Co., 1837. Cloth. Good Only. 10" by 6.5". Radclyffe. A beautifully illustrated collection of writings on journeys across South Wales from Roscoe. Dated from the British Library. Illustrated with frontispiece, title vignette, contents vignette, list of plates vignette, and forty-four plates. Collated complete. A collection of travel writing from walks and wanderings in South Wales, from Aberystwyth to Tenby and Swansea. With commentary on Welsh cottages, cathedrals and churches, castles, mountains, the Bristol Channel, and the scenery of the River Wye. Written by Thomas Roscoe, an English author and translator. Illustrated with engravings by Radclyffe, from drawings by Cox, Harding, Fielding, Creswick, and Watson. Rebacked in burgundy cloth. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the boards and spine. Light fraying to the head of the spine. Marks to the board, with a tide mark to the rear board. Front hinge… Read More

C Tilt & Simpkin & Co, 1837. Book. Very Good. hardback. two volumes, hardback, tall 8vo, re-cased preserving original burgundy cloth lettered gilt to spines, gilt and blind stamped decoration to boards, all edges gilt, later endpapers, some scattered foxing to margins of some plates and notable to vignette titles, corners of boards of volume two rubbed with some loss, binding tight & a well preserved set, 48 engravings to volume one by Radclyffe with a further 51 to volume two.