Title and date from printed typographic t.p.
The majority of the engravings are proof impressions printed on chine collé and measuring 280 x 200 mm, with a few of the larger plates trimmed to leaf size and bound in directly.
Binder's title: Heath's engravings
Inscribed and dated on front flyleaf, "Dawson Turner 1824".
Collection of 139 engravings on steel and copper by Charles Heath, chiefly proof impressions compiled by him into a bound volume for presentation to Dawson Turner, with custom printed t.p. dated 1823 and an engraved portrait of Heath by Corbould serving as a frontispiece. The majority of the engravings are book illustrations after R. Westall, with a handful of designs by Smirke and Stothard also included. Among the sets of engraved illustrations are: 8 for Sturm's "Reflections on the works of God" (all india proofs before letters); 10 for "Paul and Virginia (London : Sharpe, 1819); 12 for the "Arabian nights" (London : Rodwell and Martin, 1819); 8 for "Tales of the genii" (London : J. Booker ..., 1820); 26 for "Don Quixote" (London : Printed for Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1820); 7 for Scott's "Ivanhoe" (London : Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1820); 7 for "Guy Mannering" (London : Hurst, Robinson, 1821); 7 for "The monastery" (London : Hurst, Robinson, 1821); 4 for Campbell's "The pleasures of hope" (London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822); 17 for an edition of Byron's "Poems" (London : John Murray, 1819); 7 for Moore's "Poems"; "19 for an 1822 edition of Crabbe's "Works" (London : John Murray, 1822); and 7 additional engravings for miscellaneous publications.