Accession number
PML 145838
Creator
Nimrod, 1778-1843.
Published
London : Rudolph Ackermann, 1842.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Nimrod" was a pseudonym of the author Charles James Apperly.
First edition.
Illustrated with 36 aquatints drawn and etched by Alken, hand colored as issued.
Publisher's advertisements, (2 & 8 p.) at end of text.
"Wright and Co., printers, 76, Fleet Street."--Colophon.
Collates as in Tooley.
The first issue(?), bound in blue cloth, with four of the plates mounted, with caption titles printed beneath two of them (Tooley specifies four mounted plates with titles for the first issue, with a later variation having four mounted plates lacking titles), and the plate facing p. 348 in the first state. Cf. Tooley and Ray.
First edition.
Illustrated with 36 aquatints drawn and etched by Alken, hand colored as issued.
Publisher's advertisements, (2 & 8 p.) at end of text.
"Wright and Co., printers, 76, Fleet Street."--Colophon.
Collates as in Tooley.
The first issue(?), bound in blue cloth, with four of the plates mounted, with caption titles printed beneath two of them (Tooley specifies four mounted plates with titles for the first issue, with a later variation having four mounted plates lacking titles), and the plate facing p. 348 in the first state. Cf. Tooley and Ray.
Description
vi, 402, [2], 8 p., [36] leaves of plates : col. ill. (aquatint) ; 25 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gold.
Classification
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Department