Lot 267 , WALES: Gilpin, William. Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of Wales, third edition, 17 hand-tinted aquatint plates, contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece, London, R. Blamire, 1792, 8vo. Sold with J
° WALES: Gilpin, William. Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of Wales, third edition, 17 hand-tinted aquatint plates, contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece, London, R. Blamire, 1792, 8vo. Sold with J.T. Barber’s ‘A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire’, 1803, and [Miss. Coxe’s] ‘A Picture of Monmouthshire’, 1802, and [Richard Willett’s] ‘A Memoir of Hawarden Parish’, 1822, and four more related to Wales (8).
£60-80
Condition:
Gilpin- lacking advertisement leaf to rear, initial blank loosening, occasional offsetting, gen. clean text, upper hinge loosening; Barber- with hand-coloured folding map frontispiece, minor browning, endpapers replaced, modern rebind with old lettering piece to spine; Coxe- damp-staining throughout, blanks retained, endpapers replaced, modern rebind.
Sold for £120