The Microcosm of London
3 vol., first edition, early issue with 7 of Abbey’s 12 “key plates” in first state (nos.1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 10), wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin, some with stab-holes at fore-edge, tissue guards, some offsetting from plates but plates generally clean, text lightly browned, two modern bookplates on front pastedowns, a good copy in late nineteenth brown morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, gilt, g.e., red silk doublures and endpapers, inner gilt dentelles signed and dated 1887, very slightly rubbed, [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to, [1808-10].
The Microcosm of London
3 vol., first edition, early issue with 7 of Abbey’s 12 “key plates” in first state (nos.1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 10), wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin, some with stab-holes at fore-edge, tissue guards, some offsetting from plates but plates generally clean, text lightly browned, two modern bookplates on front pastedowns, a good copy in late nineteenth brown morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, gilt, g.e., red silk doublures and endpapers, inner gilt dentelles signed and dated 1887, very slightly rubbed, [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to, [1808-10].
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