Tombleson's Views of the Rhine. FEARNSIDE (William Gray).

Illustrated with sixty-nine full page engraved plates including vignette title page, folding map at the rear.

First edition. Small 4to. [240 x 150 x 36 mm]. [2]ff, 190, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary purple calf, the boards with a central panel blocked in blind, a double fillet border in blind and a single gilt fillet border, the spine divided into five panels by gilt raised bands, the second panel with a red goat skin label lettered in gilt, the others tooled in blind with a repeated wave pallet, edges gilt, marbled endleaves. (Spine and edges of boards faded, covers worn, otherwise binding firm).

London: William Tombleson, 1832

Engraved plates are accompanied with tissue guards, some offsetting to the engraved plates, otherwise internally clean. A large closed tear to page 115 with no loss to the text, overall in good condition.

The bookplate of Sir Hector Livingston Duff located on the front pastedown, the pencil signature of Duff located on the reverse of the front flyleaf. Sir Hector Livingston Duff (1872-1954) was an author and colonial administrator. "Sir Hector Livingston Duff has travelled all over the world, but his chief work has been in Africa, where in 1918-19 he was Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Nyasaland. He has seen much of war, without being a professional soldier; is a barrister of the Inner Temple who has never practised law, a hunter who has followed big game in all parts of the world, and a man whose memories of English society date back to Victorian times". He retired to Bath, where he died in 1954, and his house in Lansdown Crescent and books were bought by the Clarks.

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