Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece.
4to. Large Paper Copy. [311 x 250 x 15 mm]. [3]ff, x, 64 pp. Bound in 1949 in blue cloth, lettered on a red goatskin label.
London: William Pickering, 1834
One of 25 large paper copies. With a leaf of advertisements for Regal Heraldry etc. A very good copy. Inscribed in ink on the front fly-leaf: "To Michael Jones Esq. with the best respects of the Editor. L.P. only 25 copies printed", together with an autographed letter presenting the volume, dated Green St. Jan. 15th 1834. With the bookplate of Charles Travis Clay (1885-1978, Librarian of the House of Lords), and inscribed in pencil: "From my father's library at Rastrick, Charles Clay, rebound Feb. 1949". Bought at Sotheby's 20/4/1978, lot 89.
Stock no. ebc8424
Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece.
4to. Large Paper Copy. [311 x 250 x 15 mm]. [3]ff, x, 64 pp. Bound in 1949 in blue cloth, lettered on a red goatskin label.
London: William Pickering, 1834
One of 25 large paper copies. With a leaf of advertisements for Regal Heraldry etc. A very good copy. Inscribed in ink on the front fly-leaf: "To Michael Jones Esq. with the best respects of the Editor. L.P. only 25 copies printed", together with an autographed letter presenting the volume, dated Green St. Jan. 15th 1834. With the bookplate of Charles Travis Clay (1885-1978, Librarian of the House of Lords), and inscribed in pencil: "From my father's library at Rastrick, Charles Clay, rebound Feb. 1949". Bought at Sotheby's 20/4/1978, lot 89.
Stock no. ebc8424