2nd issue. Oblong Folio (18.5" x 11.5") Title. (v. blank) + Advertisement 1p. (v.blank) + 1 p. Dedication + Text pp.5 - 32 + 56 plates. The first 24 plates are soft-ground etchings (uncoloured) mostly containing several sketches to each plate; foxing and marks mostly to blank margins; the next 16 plates consist of sepia like aquatint views with slight foxing and marks mostly to blank margins, and the LAST 16 HAND COLOURED AQUATINTS PLATES have slight marks to blank margins. Splits to 2 plates; marks repaired on the back not affecting image (no loss) plus 3 UNSIGNED EARLY 19th CENTURY WATER COLOURS. Modern half red morocco with matching gilt title label to the upper board - all over marbled boards; original gilt title label affixed to front pastedown; (see R.V. Tooley's English Books with Coloured Plates). This colour plate book is the best and most important of the early drawing books. Coloured plates in order: 1. Watercolour to front pastedown. Pastoral scene. 2. Watercolour (loose). The rural setting of a couple standing on a bridge, along with a rider on horseback. Sepia views. 3. Four views; Parts of Kenilworth Castle. 4. Three views of rural cottages and one of the River Thames and Westminster etc. 5. Part of Caernarvon Castle, a timber frame house, and rural cottages beside a church. 6. Two 'Old Buildings'; Hastings & Lambeth. 7. Part of Windsor Castle ('Morning') & View of Conway Castle from N.W. ('Evening'). 8. Two views; Hazy Morning' & Mid-day. 9. Two views; A Heath. Cloudy Effect & Snowdon, North Wales. 10. Two views; Cottage near North fleet, Kent & Lane at Edgbaston, near Birmingham. 11. Two views; An Effect after a Storm. 'View on the Coast near Harlech, N. Wales' & Transient Effect 'View in Battersea Marsh.' 12. Two views; Dolbadden Tower, Llanberis Lake, North Wales & Pont Abber Glass lyn, N. Wales. 13. Hastings Fishing Boats returning on the approach of a storm. 14. Sheep Shearing, a view in Surry. 15. 'Morning.' Fish Market on the Beach, Hastings. 16. 'Twilight.' Warwick Castle. 17. 'Morning.' Eton College. 18. 'Noon.' Llanilled Vale, N. Wales. Coloured aquatints. 19. First Lesson on Colouring. View of part of the Battle Abbey, Sussex. 20. Second Lesson on Colouring. View in Surry. 21. Morning. Composition. 22. Mid-day. View in a Cornfield. 23. Evening. Windsor Castle. 24. Twi-light. View of Harlech Castle, North Wales. 25. A Heath. Windy Effect. 26. Rain. Heath Scene. 27. A Calm. Hastings Fishing Boats. 28. Storm. View on the Coast of Hastings. 29. Cloudy Effect. View of Caernarvon, North Wales. 30. Misty Morning. Pollard Willows. 31. Afternoon. A view in Surry. 32. Rainbow Effect. View on the Thames. 33. Moonlight. View on the Thames near Chertsey. 34. Snow-scene. 35 Watercolour; Noon. Planilted Vale, North Wales.