24th May, 2023 11:00

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 22
 

Hakewill (James) The History of Windsor and its Neighbourhood

Hakewill (James)

The History of Windsor and its Neighbourhood, pp xvili, 359, 21 fine copper engraved plates and plans, 14 engraved vignettes in text, some plates lightly foxed, but overall a nice and crisp copy, with very wide and generous margins of the First Edition, substantial folio (13 1/2ins × 16 1/2ins, 340 × 420mm), contemporary full calf, rebacked at an early date using the original backstrip, now a little rubbed, printed for Edmund Lloyd, 1813.

***Lowndes lists a Large Paper atlas 4to but with plates in Proof on India Paper. This copy is as large, not on India Paper. End-paper with neat MS inscription "To James Lockyer with Geo Mor-ant's affectionate regards, October 21 1840."

Sold for £62

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