DANIELL, William (1769-1837) and Richard AYTON (1786-1823). A Voyage round Great Britain... . London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and William Daniell 1814-1815-1818-1820-1821-1822-1826-1825. 8 volumes in 4, 4 (364 x 260mm). Aquatint dedication, 308 hand-coloured aquatint plates and one tinted lithographic plate by and after Daniell, the majority of the plates with grey wash borders. (Some scattered light spotting, browning and offsetting affecting text leaves and plates, lacking tissue guards.) Contemporary half olive-green crushed morocco gilt, spines gilt in six compartments, titled in 2 and with floral, foliate and naturalistic tools in the remainder, gilt edges (extremities and spines a little rubbed and scuffed, boards slightly dusty.) Provenance : CEA (bookplates); William Strang Steel (bookplates). "A MAGNIFICENT SERIES OF PLATES, ALMOST ALL OF EQUAL QUALITY" by William Daniell R.A. (Tooley). First editions of volumes I-VI and VIII. Daniell and Ayton's account of their journey around the coast of Britain, which commenced at Land's End and continued along the north coast of Cornwall, was directed at those "who would not venture in pursuit of amusement out of the latitude of good inns and level roads, [but...] may still be pleased to become acquainted, at a cheaper rate, with the character of their own shores, where most conspicuous for boldness and picturesque beauty. It is the design, therefore, of the following voyage, minutely to describe the whole coast round Great Britain; not merely to give plans and outlines of its well-known towns, ports, and havens, but to illustrate the grandeur of its natural scenery, the manners and employment of people, and modes of life, in its wildest parts" (Introduction). However, the companionship of the voyage was not sustained through publication; after the appearance of the second volume in 1815 Ayton disputed Daniell's plans for the publication of the subsequent volumes, and withdrew from the collaboration, leading to the removal of his name from the title-pages of volumes III-VIII. The present set is without the index chart which was published separately to accompany the work, but, as Tooley notes, the chart 'is not normally included, the work being complete without it'. Abbey Scenery 16; Brunet II col.488; Tooley 177; Upcott p.xxxv. (4)
DANIELL, William (1769-1837) and Richard AYTON (1786-1823). A Voyage round Great Britain... . London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and William Daniell 1814-1815-1818-1820-1821-1822-1826-1825. 8 volumes in 4, 4 (364 x 260mm). Aquatint dedication, 308 hand-coloured aquatint plates and one tinted lithographic plate by and after Daniell, the majority of the plates with grey wash borders. (Some scattered light spotting, browning and offsetting affecting text leaves and plates, lacking tissue guards.) Contemporary half olive-green crushed morocco gilt, spines gilt in six compartments, titled in 2 and with floral, foliate and naturalistic tools in the remainder, gilt edges (extremities and spines a little rubbed and scuffed, boards slightly dusty.) Provenance : CEA (bookplates); William Strang Steel (bookplates). "A MAGNIFICENT SERIES OF PLATES, ALMOST ALL OF EQUAL QUALITY" by William Daniell R.A. (Tooley). First editions of volumes I-VI and VIII. Daniell and Ayton's account of their journey around the coast of Britain, which commenced at Land's End and continued along the north coast of Cornwall, was directed at those "who would not venture in pursuit of amusement out of the latitude of good inns and level roads, [but...] may still be pleased to become acquainted, at a cheaper rate, with the character of their own shores, where most conspicuous for boldness and picturesque beauty. It is the design, therefore, of the following voyage, minutely to describe the whole coast round Great Britain; not merely to give plans and outlines of its well-known towns, ports, and havens, but to illustrate the grandeur of its natural scenery, the manners and employment of people, and modes of life, in its wildest parts" (Introduction). However, the companionship of the voyage was not sustained through publication; after the appearance of the second volume in 1815 Ayton disputed Daniell's plans for the publication of the subsequent volumes, and withdrew from the collaboration, leading to the removal of his name from the title-pages of volumes III-VIII. The present set is without the index chart which was published separately to accompany the work, but, as Tooley notes, the chart 'is not normally included, the work being complete without it'. Abbey Scenery 16; Brunet II col.488; Tooley 177; Upcott p.xxxv. (4)
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