OBSERVATIONS ON THE WESTERN PARTS OF ENGLAND, RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO PICTURESQUE BEAUTY. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A FEW REMARKS ON THE PICTURESQUE BEAUTIES OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT

by William Gilpin

$550 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, Strand, 1798. 23 cm. xvi, 359, 1 pp. With 18 aquatint plates. Full contemporary red straight-grain morocco, single gilt filet on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of Plymouth and its harbor hidden under the gilt fore-edges. Spine darkened, else a very good copy. Bookplate of the Rev. C.B. Pearson on front pastedown. Item

• Binding: Leather

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