Panoramic View Round the Regent's Park.

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'Morris's panorama represents the entire circuit of Regent's Park. It shows the newly completed terraces by John Nash and Decimus Burton and also St.Katherine's Hospital, and the Colosseum....No other print is known that shows the Colosseum's original aviary, situated immediately to the North of the rotunda.' (Panoramania). A magnificent panorama, with place names below, including Harrow, visible as a distant prospect in those days, across undeveloped country and parkland. First edition; full dimensions of panorama 12.5 x 580 cm; engraved title with handcoloured aquatint view of Portland Place pasted to front board, long folding handcoloured aquatint panorama on 14 sections, folds reinforced, folding into cloth boards, a very good copy. Abbey Life 524; Panoramania pp91-92.

• Binding: Hardcover

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