Lear, Edward.

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

Views in Rome and its environs. London: T. M'Lean, 1841
paper

First edition, folio (540 x 370mm.), lithographed title with vignette, contents leaf and 25 plates, original morocco-backed cloth, [Abbey, Travel 183], contents loose (gutta percha perished), each plate with small pin-prick at corners of image, occasional slight spotting, spine rubbed

Catalogue Note

Loosely inserted in this copy is a printed prospectus for the work (including a list of subscribers) and a lithographed request to subscribers for payment. In all 209 subscribed to this work, the first of Lear's illustrated travel books.