SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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SULLIVAN, Dennis.
A Picturesque Tour through Ireland...illustrated with numerous coloured views of the most interesting Scenery.

FIRST EDITION of this scarce work, containing 25 lovely hand-coloured aquatints, with descriptive text facing.

Published
London: Thomas McLean & W. Lewis, 1824.
References
Abbey Scenery 460; Tooley 469; Bobins 725.
Plates
25
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Thomas McLean & W. Lewis, 1824.
Ref
5414

Oblong 4to, title, list of plates, intro, 25 aquatint hand-coloured plates - each with a leaf of text, later 19th century half red morocco over green cloth, flat spine, ruled and lettered in gilt, matching morocco title label to upper board. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Irish Cottages. 2. Stone Cross at Kilcullen. 3. Wicklow Gold Mines. 4. Mountains of Lugnaquilla. 5. Lough Erne and the Isle of Devenish. 6. Part of the Abbey of Monaincha. 7. Principal Lake at Killarney. 8. Abbey of Aghaboe. 9. Trim Castle, East Meath. 10. Giant's Causeway. 11. Ballrichan Castle. 12. Roche Castle. 13. Belfast. 14. Lough of Belfast. 15. View on the River Shannon. 16. Downpatrick. 17. Part of Loch Neagh. 18. Carlingford Castle. 19. Waterfall near Bantry. 20. Salmon Leap at Leixlip. 21. Dunamase Castle. 22. Bray Head. 23. View on the River Blackwater. 24. Limerick. 25. Mountains of Morne.