The Microcosm of London
3 vol., first edition, early issue with 8 of Abbey’s 12 “key plates” in first state , wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves (that in vol.1 partly hand-coloured), list of subscribers, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin, some offsetting from plates but plates very clean, old Russian ink stamp at foot of front free endpaper, a good copy in handsome contemporary diced russia with decorative borders in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed, neat repairs to joints and spine ends, [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to, 1808-10.
The Microcosm of London
3 vol., first edition, early issue with 8 of Abbey’s 12 “key plates” in first state , wood-engraved pictorial titles, engraved dedication leaves (that in vol.1 partly hand-coloured), list of subscribers, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson and Pugin, some offsetting from plates but plates very clean, old Russian ink stamp at foot of front free endpaper, a good copy in handsome contemporary diced russia with decorative borders in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed, neat repairs to joints and spine ends, [Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7], 4to, 1808-10.
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