John Clerk | Etchings, 1825-1855, 3 vols, contemporary bindings

John Clerk

3 works, comprising:

i. Etchings by John Clerk, Esq., of Eldin. late eighteenth-century. Folio (476 x 359mm.), manuscript title-page, engraved author portrait, 102 etchings, mounted on card, a few hand-tinted, some with manuscript captions, loose in red morocco binding, lettered in gilt on upper cover, gilt edges, blue silk endpapers, mounts with some browning and dust-soiling at extremities, binding rubbed;

ii. Etchings, Chiefly of Views in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh, 1825. Folio (454 x 284mm.), list of views, 28 etchings, contemporary maroon half morocco, some light spotting, extremities rubbed;

iii. A Series of Etchings, Chiefly of Views in Scotland... with additional etchings and facsimiles from his drawings. Edinburgh: printed for the Bannatyne Club, 1855. 2 lithographed author portraits and 56 plates, contemporary maroon half calf, paper label to upper board, some foxing, binding rubbed with slight loss at head of spine

PROVENANCE

George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch (1813-1876), armorial bookplates in 1825 and 1855 editions of Etchings