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

Accession number: 
PML 145674-81
Author: 
Daniell, William, 1769-1837.
Published: 
London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ..., 1814-1825.
Description: 
8 v., [308] leaves of plates : hand col. plates (aquatint) ; 39 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Cover title: Coast scenery of Great Britain.
Ayton's name does not appear on the t.p. of v. 3-8, as he wrote the letterpress for v. 1-2 only.--Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Vol. 1: v, 215 p., [28] leaves of plates; v. 2: 223 p., [28] leaves of plates; v. 3: 80 p., [42] leaves of plates; v. 4: 96 p., [42] leaves of plates; v. 5: 36 p., [42] leaves of plates; v. 6: 94 p., [42] leaves of plates; v. 7: 90 p., [42] leaves plates; v. 8: 65 p., [42] leaves of plates.
"A number of sets were issued with the plates on, or mounted on, card; the claim has been made that of this 'special' edition only twenty-five sets were issued. This is probably an understatement."--Abbey.
Library's copy lacks the aquatint dedication leaf in v. 1; a copy of the missing plate has been loosely inserted to make up the deficiency; copy otherwise collates as in Abbey.
Large paper copy, with the hand colored aquatints mounted on card.

Binding: 
Brown morocco tooled in gilt with the arms of the Duchesse de Berry, by Simier.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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