Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH.) WESTALL, WILLIAM; and SAMUEL OWENS. Picturesque Tour of The River Thames. Folding engraved map of the river, 24 hand-colored aquatint plates, and vignettes on title-page and final text leaf, all after Westall and Owen; index leaf bound in rear. 4to, rebound in full red morocco with borders stamped in blind on covers, gilt-lettered spine; all edges trimmed and gilt, portion of original backstrip mounted to rear pastedown; usual coloring flaw to sky area in Twickenham plate at page 130, usual minor offsetting, visible on a few plates, but most images bright and clean with strong coloring, occasional scattered minor marginal toning and faint foxing; later buckram slipcase. Abbey, Scenery 435; Tooley 503. London: Ackermann, 1828