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Item #42717 A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell. William DANIELL, Richard AYTON.
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A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell
A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell

A Voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall ... with a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown and William Daniell, 1814-1825. Eight volumes in four, imperial quarto. (14 1/8 x 10 inches). Uncoloured aquatint dedication leaf at the front of Volume I, 308 hand-coloured aquatints, all by and after William Daniell. With the uncoloured stipple-engraving of "Kemaes-head, Pembrokeshire" (opposite p. 103 in Volume I).

Contemporary fine straight-grain red morocco, boards blind and gilt stamped, spines with raised bands forming six compartments, elaborately tooled and lettered gilt, all edges gilt

Provenance: Bookplates of Christopher Turner (1809-1886), Stoke Rochford Library and Hermann Marx (1881-1947)

The Stoke Rochford-Hermann Marx copy of "The most important colour plate book on British topography" (Tooley).

The most ambitious British coastal picture book of its period, conceived as a systematic circuit of the shoreline from Land's End and carried forward county by county, combining Ayton's descriptive text with Daniell's sustained programme of aquatint views. The plates move between working harbours, headlands, cliff coasts, and sea approaches, and include repeated attention to the visual drama of exposed rock, surf, and weather, alongside shipping and the maritime life of towns and coves. Although the project proposed a coastal voyage, the journey necessarily alternated between sea and land travel, a practical reality that sharpened the book's mixture of marine prospects and overland viewpoints. William Daniell was both the draughtsman and engraver of the plates and one of the leading British practitioners of aquatint. Trained in London, Daniell had earlier travelled widely and achieved prominence through large illustrated projects that demonstrated the medium's capacity for tonal range and atmosphere, and A Voyage round Great Britain became his major late work, extending aquatint's topographical possibilities over a sustained national subject. Richard Ayton supplied the letterpress and shaped the work's documentary ambition, describing the coast not only as scenery but as an inhabited and worked environment, where fishing, trade, and coastal travel defined local life. Provenance: Christopher Turner was a Lincolnshire landowner and Conservative Member of Parliament associated with the Stoke Rochford estate. Hermann Marx was a German-born British stockbroker, banker, and a noted print and book collector. Part of his distinguished library was sold at auction by Sotheby's in April 1948.

Abbey Scenery 16; Prideaux p.326; Bobins II, 636; Tooley 177.

Item #42717

Price: $22,500.00

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