A Hand-Book for the Architecture, Tapestries, Paintings, Gardens, & Grounds, of Hampton Court. SUMMERLY (Felix).

Woodcut frontispiece, 15 plates and two woodcuts in the text after David Cox, Charles Pyne and Henry Cole.

First Edition. 12mo. [161 x 101 x 17 mm]. viii, 160, [2] pp. Original brown cloth, blocked in blind and gilt. (A little rubbed and spine slightly faded).
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841.

Light damp stain at foot of the plates but a good copy. With the final leaf of "Conveyances to Hampton Court". Original bookseller's label of W. H. Dalton of 28 Cockspur St. Charing Cross, and ink ownership inscription dated 1844 on front free endleaf. Early pencil note on the title "Scarce", which it remains. The gilt block on the front states that Hampton Court is open daily, except Friday, and the block on the rear represents Wolsey.

Stock no. ebc6838