Item details: Curiosities of Great Britain. England and Wales Delineated
£ 250.00
DUGDALE, Thomas, John Tallis
Curiosities of Great Britain. England and Wales Delineated
Imprint: London, 1835 Binding:
Hardback
Quarto (220 x 140 mm. each), ten volumes, contemporary green cloth, boards with ornate blind decoration, spines with blind and gilt panelling, gilt titles. With 56 early hand coloured steel engraved maps and purportedly 11 plans and 238 views, some light foxing, some maps with light print offset, otherwise in good condition.
Thomas Dugdale was an antiquarian and responsible for this the Curiosities of Great Britain. The work was issued with two distinct sets of maps. The first utilised those maps from the George Cole and John Roper British Atlas of 1810. This second series used a new set of maps engraved by Joshua Archer (1792-1863) which were derived from those of Cole and Roper. The publishers J. & F. Tallis had acquired the Cole and Roper plates and the Dugdale text by c.1835. In 1835 the plates were used to accompany Thomas Dugdale’s Curiosities of Great Britain. Provenance: private English collection. Beresiner (1983) pp. 88-90; Carroll (1996) no. 62; Chubb (1927) 465.