MALTON (JAMES)A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, Described in a Series of the Most Interesting Scenes Taken in the Year 1791, FIRST EDITION, engraved title-page, engraved arms of the City of Dublin (dated 1792), engraved dedication (dated 1794), 2 uncoloured aquatint plans, engraved key plate, 25 hand-coloured engraved plates by James Malton uncoloured aquatint vignette on the recto of descriptive text leaves, occasional spotting to text (heaviest on dedication), original marbled boards, printed title label on upper cover ("Price £10:10:0"), rebacked, slipcase [Abbey 374, coloured copy; Tooley 315], oblong folio (45 x 575mm.), James Malton after 1799, probably c. 1818 [watermarked text 1802-1811, plates 1809-1817]Footnotes"A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin... is one of the earliest and best of books with coloured aquatints... Malton as a topographical draughtsman had few equals, and the plates... have a distinction of their own in addition to their value as an architectural record" (Hardie, English Coloured Books).
MALTON (JAMES)A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, Described in a Series of the Most Interesting Scenes Taken in the Year 1791, FIRST EDITION, engraved title-page, engraved arms of the City of Dublin (dated 1792), engraved dedication (dated 1794), 2 uncoloured aquatint plans, engraved key plate, 25 hand-coloured engraved plates by James Malton uncoloured aquatint vignette on the recto of descriptive text leaves, occasional spotting to text (heaviest on dedication), original marbled boards, printed title label on upper cover ("Price £10:10:0"), rebacked, slipcase [Abbey 374, coloured copy; Tooley 315], oblong folio (45 x 575mm.), James Malton after 1799, probably c. 1818 [watermarked text 1802-1811, plates 1809-1817]Footnotes"A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin... is one of the earliest and best of books with coloured aquatints... Malton as a topographical draughtsman had few equals, and the plates... have a distinction of their own in addition to their value as an architectural record" (Hardie, English Coloured Books).
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