Pyne (William Henry)

The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore, 3 volumes, 100 hand-coloured aquatint plates by W.J. Bennett, D. Havell, B. Reeve, T. Sutherland and others after J Stephanoff C. Wild, R. Cattermole and W. Westall, some heightened with gum arabic, lacking half-titles, one plate marked (The Upper Ward, Windsor Castle), plates generally clean, some spotting and offsetting to text and tissue guards, modern morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt edges, [Abbey (Scenery) 396; Tooley (1954) 389], 4to, printed for A. Dry, 1819.

Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1995, lot 61.