SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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JONES, Harry Longueville.
Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains.

Published
London (& Cambridge): Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1829.
Plates
15
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
London (& Cambridge): Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1829.
Ref
323

Folio. (380 x 300 mm.) Pp viii 54 some foxing. Hand-coloured lithographic frontis. Split affecting engraved surface (1cm). Frontis and 14 hand-coloured lithographic plates with modern colouring. Some foxing, mostly blank margins. Contemporary cloth binding, retaining original paper title label to upper board and spine, in good cond. The book also lists botanical plants observed on the Snowdonian mountains in 1789 and 1801. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontis. Llyn Idwal. 2. The Vale of the Lleder. 3. Rhaiadyr y Wenol, near Capel Curig. 4. The Vale of Llanrwst. 5. View from the hills on the East of Bangor. 6. Rhaiadyr Mawr, near Aber. 7. Llyn Ogwen. 8. [Plate 'cropped,' not caption.] Scene showing Mount Snowdon. 9. Llyn Beris. 10. Llyn a Castel Dolbarden. 11. Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle. 12. Nant Gwynant. 13. Llyn y Dinas. 14. The Pass of Pont-y-Glaslyn. 15. View in the Vale of Tremadoc near Pont Aberglaslyn.