Views of Lansdown Tower, Bath. The Favourite Edifice of the Late William Beckford Esqr. From Drawings

by Willes Maddox

$5,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Dark red straight-grained half morocco over publisher's brown moiré cloth, title stamped and lettered in gilt on front and on spine, with bookplate on pastedown Grand first edition folio volume of a fantastical folly, with 13 hand-colored lithographs of Beckford's unimpeachable decor. Shortly after the eccentric novelist, collector, bibliophile, and plantation-owner William Beckford died in May of 1844, the book Views of Lansdown Tower was published,

• Binding: Leather

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