SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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RICHARDSON, Thomas M.
Views of the Architectural Antiquities of Northumberland and Durham.

A lovely book devoted to villages, priories, castles, ruins, and other fascinating buildings of local importance in Northumberland and Durham. The engravings are after T.M. Richardson, senior, and were published in Newcastle. A folio of hand-coloured engravings produced under the Patronage of Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland.

Published
Newcastle & London: Charnley, Rodwell & Martin, [1819-22].
References
Not in Abbey or Tooley; Prideaux p.349 (incomplete copy); Hardie p.144; Bobins 889.
Plates
14
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
Newcastle & London: Charnley, Rodwell & Martin, [1819-22].
Ref
5209

Folio; 14 hand-coloured aquatint engravings after drawings by Richardson. Lithograph wrapper title bound in half brown pebble morocco and cloth, gilt rule to boards, gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, extremities rubbed. Colored plates in order: 1. The Barbican or Utter Ward of Alnwick Castle. The Seat of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 2. Ruins of Tynemouth Priory. 3. The Hermitage of Warkworth. 4. Interior of a small Chapel at Tynemouth Priory. 5. Remains of Dunstanborough Castle. 6. Bamborough Castle. 7. Dilston. 8. Lime Staith, North Shields. 9. Village of Newburn. 10. Prior's Haven, Tynemouth. 11. On the Tyne near Featherstone Castle. 12. Black Gate (East View.) 13. Cullercoats. 14. Castle Gateway-Durham.