FIRST [and only] EDITION. Folio, lithographed vignette title with a view of Liverpool, lithographed dedication to the Duke, plate list, text. Twenty-eight lithotints, finished by hand and dated 1850. 3/4 morocco over green cloth gilt. Spine with gilt letters raised bands, decorative gilt compartments, gilt to boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A coat-of-arms surrounded by a large circular title in gilt has been affixed to the front pastedown; also loosely inserted is a contemporary newspaper cutting concerning the artist, and an uncoloured woodcut engraved portrait of the artist, taken from the Illustrated London News. The "Resolution" cruised via the Kyles of Bute, Skye, Mull, Isles of Rum and Egg, Inverlochy, Glen Nevis, Lerwick, and returned to Leith Waters. An attractive series of views. Schetky was born in Cheshire and had been appointed court artist to King George IV, and at the time of making these plates, was in the service of Queen Victoria as her court painter for marine subjects. Lord John Manners, son of the Duke of Rutland, mentioned in the title, and later himself to become The Duke of Rutland, wrote the text for the plates. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. Liverpool. 2-3. On the River Clyde, Rosen Heath (a pair of folding plates). 4. Campbeltown, Argyllshire. 5. South Face of the Cross at Campbeltown. 6. North Face of the Cross at Campbeltown. 7. Mull of Canter, Argyllshire. 8. In the Sound of Isla. 9. The Paps of Jura, from the Road to Shawfield, Isle of Isla. 10. Artornish Castle, Sound of Mull. 11. Ross Castle, Isle of Mull. 12. Tobermory, Sound of Mull (a folding plate). 13. [The Fall of] Bullah a Shahan. 14. Armadale Castle, Isle of Skye. 15. Islands of Rum and Egg, in Skye. 16. In Glen Nevis (a folding plate). 17. Inverlochy Castle by Fort William. 18. Invergarry Castle on Loch Oich 19. Fort Augustus, Loch Ness. 20. The Fall of Foyers, Inverness-shire. 21. Castle Urquhart - Loch Ness. 22. Old Castle and Cathedral of Kirkwall. 23. General View of Kirkwall, from the West. 24. Fair Island, Coast of Zetland. 25. Sumburgh Head, Coast of Zetland. 26. Lerwick, Zetland. 27. Earl Patrick Stewarts Old Castle of Scalloway, Zetland. 28. Noup of Noss, Zetland. 29. The "Resolution" Yacht returning to Leith Roads from a Cruise in Scotch Waters, on 30th Aug 1848.