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DEPPING, George Bernard
L'Angleterre ou Description Historique et Topographique
Imprint: Paris, Chez Étienne Ledoux, Libraire, Rue Guénégaud, No. 9, 1824
Edition:
First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Duodecimo, six volumes (160 x 110 mm. each), contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt calf titles and volume numbers, light wear to spine head and tails, retaining contemporary silk page marks. With typographic half title and title page to each volume, pp. (4), viii, 272; (4), 288; (4), 268; (4), 226; (4), 226, (2); (4), 268, with 58 early outline coloured maps (1 folding), 19 aquatint plates and three further engravings, otherwise in good condition.
This series of miniature maps were drawn it is believed by Aristide Michel Perrot (1793-1879). They accompanied a topographical description of Great Britain by George Bernard Depping (1784-1853). He was a naturalised Frenchman who was born in Münster, Germany in 1784. He became a professor of German and a member of the French Royal Society of Antiquaries. Perrot was a geographer who produced several works related to this field. The maps appear to be the work of the Parisian engraver Adrien Migneret (1786-1840). Each is adorned with what appears to be unrelated imagery. A very nice example of the first edition. Provenance: Clive A. Burden Ltd. 2011; private English collection. Carroll (1996) no. 83; not in Chubb; Tooley (1999-2004).
Stock number:9923.
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