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[TRAVEL / SCENERY]
A Picturesque Description of North Wales; embellished with Twenty select Views from Nature.
A set of lovely atmospheric views to be found in North Wales. Thomas McLean was a London print seller and publisher who specialized in the publishing political caricatures.
- Published
- London: Thomas McLean, 1823.
- References
- Abbey Scenery 525 Tooley 373. Bobins II 695.
- Plates
- 20
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Thomas McLean, 1823.
- Ref
- 274
8vo. (210 x 290mm) Beautiful red half-leather cover with glorious marbled boards. Title and a half-title. 20 attractive hand-coloured aquatint views, each with a page of text, in excellent condition without dustwrapper. Boards and spine have been expertly repaired. Title label in gilt to spine. A 'proud' title motif on the front cover. Contents slightly browned at edges, not imprinting onto the engravings. With "W [illiam] S. Adams" bookplate. SCARCE. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Flint Castle (Flintshire). 2. The Vale of Clydd (Denbighshire). 3. View on the Dee, near Corwen (Merionethshire). 4. View on the River Conway. 5. Conway Castle (Caernarvonshire). 6. Caernarvon Castle (Caernarvonshire). 7. Dolbadron Castle (Caernarvonshire). 8. Llanberris Lake & Dolbadron Castle. 9. Moel Shabod near Capel Curig. 10. View in Nant Guinant. 11. Llyn-y-Dinas, near Bedgellert (Caernarvonshire). 12. On the River Glassllyn (Caernarvonshire). 13. Mountains of Cright (Merionethshire). 14. Head of the Vale of Festiniog (Merionethshire). 15. Rhaiadr-y-Mawddach (Merionethshire). 16. Dolgelly Bridge (Merionethshire). 17. Bala Lake (Merionethshire). 18. Near Yal-y-Llyn (Merionethshire). 19. Goodrich Castle (Herefordshire). 20. Interior of Goodrich Castle (Herefordshire).
