Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 310

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
GILPIN, WILLIAM. Observations, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England; particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. 4 etched and 26 tinted aquatint plates (offsetting onto facing pages). 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt by Thomas Lawley of Bridgnorth (not in Ramsden), with his tickets, spines darkened, joints starting; lacks half-titles. Later 19th-century armorial bookplates of Charles Gresley of Lichfield. London: R. Blamire, 1786

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first edition.