[ABBEY, John Roland]

Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey

Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. Quarto. (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 inches). Colour frontispiece. xx, 399pp.; 34 plates, 54 text illustrations. 556 entries.

Publisher's cloth boards. Dust jacket.

A fine copy of an important work on Aquatint and Lithography.

Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue on the illustrated history of scenery in Great Britain and Ireland. From his preface: "I have, for over a quarter of a century, been collecting books on the Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with aquatints or lithographs published between the years 1775 and 1860. In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. 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 catalogue."

Item #39124

Price: $125.00