May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
LOUTHERBOURG, PHILIPPE-JACQUES DE. The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales. 19 color plates after Loutherbourg. English and French text. Folio, 468x325 mm, original 1/2 brown levant gilt by Zaehnsdorf with vellum sides and batik-pattern endpapers; contents immaculate; publisher's 1/4 morocco folding case. London, 1805 (reprint, 1979)

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number 5 from a small number of specially bound copies, from a total edition of 1000. A superb facsimile reproducing the original edition of a classic of early 19th-century English color plate topography. The reprint was published by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust to mark the bicentennial of the 1779 construction of the world's first iron bridge, spanning the River Severn in Shropshire.