Lot 42
Robson, George Fennell
Scenery of the Grampian Mountains
£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. Large folio (53.5 x 35.5cm), contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt edges, engraved folding map hand-coloured in outline, 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Henry Morton after Robson, a little wear to extremities, sides slightly marked, variable offsetting, a little marginal dust-soiling to map, marginal finger-soiling to final plate, endpapers creased [Abbey Scenery 506]
Footnote
First edition thus: the sketches were originally published in 1814 as a series of soft-ground etchings, uncoloured. The list of subscribers records 210 copies.
