DANIELL, William (1769-1837) and Richard AYTON (1786-1823). A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall. With a series of views illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast. London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown and William Daniell 1814-1825. 8 volumes, 4° (360 x 260mm). Aquatint dedication (slightly spotted) and 308 HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES PRINTED ON CARD, within grey wash borders, by and after William Daniell (Lacking the uncoloured plate of Kemaes Head, plate 223 printed on paper and mounted on card to size, plate 218 with barely-visible tear across lower right corner, 7 plates with lower edge of plate-mark just shaved, not affecting image or imprint, occasional very light spotting.) Contemporary dark-green morocco gilt, the covers with decorative border composed of fillets and floral and foliate rolls, large and small rosette corner-pieces, with Botfield arms blocked in the centre, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with floral and foliate tools within strapwork borders, the broad turn-ins with gilt roll between triple fillet rolls, g.e. by C. Smith (some covers with small patches of very light discolouration). A FINE SET. A LAVISHLY BOUND FIRST-EDITION SET OF "THE MOST IMPORTANT COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY" (Tooley). C. Smith also bound the African Scenery and the Scenery, Animals and Native Inhabitants . . . of Ceylon by Samuel Daniell (lot 59) to match this set. Volume VI of the Voyage was bound using two skins, with the vertical join skilfully disguised by the gilt border at the inner edge of the back cover. Tooley states that only twenty-five copies were published with the plates mounted on card, at 96 guineas, but as Abbey points out, "this is probably an underestimate". In general the plates also appear to be printed on card, rather than mounted on it as Tooley describes. The work was originally issued in parts costing 10s.6d. each, and an index chart was also published at 6s., but "is not usually included, the work being complete without it" (Tooley). In this copy, plate 27 (Dunsky Castle, near Port Patrick, Wigtonshire) has been bound in volume III, rather than volume II as prescribed in the plate list for that part. The Voyage was originally planned by Daniell, who asked Ayton to contribute the descriptions. However, the partnership lasted only for the first two volumes, after which the two disagreed on plans for future volumes and Ayton turned to writing and adapting comedies for the English Opera House instead. The text for the first two volumes of the Voyage is noticeably longer than that accompanying the succeeding volumes. Abbey Scenery 16; Tooley 177. (8)
DANIELL, William (1769-1837) and Richard AYTON (1786-1823). A Voyage Round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall. With a series of views illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast. London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown and William Daniell 1814-1825. 8 volumes, 4° (360 x 260mm). Aquatint dedication (slightly spotted) and 308 HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES PRINTED ON CARD, within grey wash borders, by and after William Daniell (Lacking the uncoloured plate of Kemaes Head, plate 223 printed on paper and mounted on card to size, plate 218 with barely-visible tear across lower right corner, 7 plates with lower edge of plate-mark just shaved, not affecting image or imprint, occasional very light spotting.) Contemporary dark-green morocco gilt, the covers with decorative border composed of fillets and floral and foliate rolls, large and small rosette corner-pieces, with Botfield arms blocked in the centre, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in two, the others with floral and foliate tools within strapwork borders, the broad turn-ins with gilt roll between triple fillet rolls, g.e. by C. Smith (some covers with small patches of very light discolouration). A FINE SET. A LAVISHLY BOUND FIRST-EDITION SET OF "THE MOST IMPORTANT COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY" (Tooley). C. Smith also bound the African Scenery and the Scenery, Animals and Native Inhabitants . . . of Ceylon by Samuel Daniell (lot 59) to match this set. Volume VI of the Voyage was bound using two skins, with the vertical join skilfully disguised by the gilt border at the inner edge of the back cover. Tooley states that only twenty-five copies were published with the plates mounted on card, at 96 guineas, but as Abbey points out, "this is probably an underestimate". In general the plates also appear to be printed on card, rather than mounted on it as Tooley describes. The work was originally issued in parts costing 10s.6d. each, and an index chart was also published at 6s., but "is not usually included, the work being complete without it" (Tooley). In this copy, plate 27 (Dunsky Castle, near Port Patrick, Wigtonshire) has been bound in volume III, rather than volume II as prescribed in the plate list for that part. The Voyage was originally planned by Daniell, who asked Ayton to contribute the descriptions. However, the partnership lasted only for the first two volumes, after which the two disagreed on plans for future volumes and Ayton turned to writing and adapting comedies for the English Opera House instead. The text for the first two volumes of the Voyage is noticeably longer than that accompanying the succeeding volumes. Abbey Scenery 16; Tooley 177. (8)
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