Gerning (Johann Isaak von)

A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne,

first English edition, list of subscribers, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue guards, folding engraved map, various watermarks including ‘HS & S 1818’, October imprints on plates 2 and 3, second front flyleaf loose, [Abbey, Travel, 217; Tooley 234], Cambridge-style calf binding by Abraham van Rossum, with his binder label, gilt-tooled with morocco title label to spine, four abrasions to upper board, slight splitting at head of spine, large 4to (34 x 27 cm), R. Ackermann, 1820.

***Abraham van Rossum (active in Amsterdam 1812-1854), was ‘hof-boekbinder’ (bookbinder to the court) from c. 1845.