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Complete set of 5 Beautifully Illustrated Volumes in Contemprary Green Morocco Half-Leather Bindings. 5 Raised Bands to spines with Gilt Lettering, Lines & Vol. Nos. Page edges speckled red. 13" Tall. Complete with 60 Full Page Steel Engraved Plates & 5 Illustrated Title Pages. Artists include Birket Fister, Wimperis, Skelton, Leitch, Haghe & Werner. Also nearly 1,000 beautiful in-Text Woodcut illustrations, by Boot, Fenn, Green, Leitch, Wolf & Others. Highly informative Text on the Architectural and Natural Beauty of Europe, by Rev. T.G. Bonney & others. Vol I covers Great Britain and Ireland (including Windsor, Eton, Warwick, South coast, Land's End, Wales, Dales, Forest scenery, Thames, Edinburgh and the South Lowlands. Frontis Plate "Windsor Castle". Vol II covers more of Great Britain and the West Coast of Ireland, Oxford, Cambridge, Cathedral cities etc. Vol III covers much of Western and Central Europe, including: Normandy & Brittany, Spain, Rome & Environs, Venice, The Rhine, Forest of Fontainbleau, Alps & Lakes. Vol IV includes Norway, Frontiers of France, The Channel islands, Old German Towns, Naples, Lake Geneva, Sicily. Vol V includes Sweden, Russia, Eastern Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Athens, The Danube. 288 Pages per Volume except Vol V which has an extra 32 Page General Index. No inscriptions. Pages and Plates in very good, clean condition. First few pages of Vol II has a tiny bit of marginal insect damage. Only a few occasional spots of foxing. Some wear to covers with scuffs and scrapes to leather (See photos). Set weighs 17.5 Kilos so Shipping outsifde UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like any more pictures, information or a Shipping quote. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Seller Inventory # 015263
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Bibliographic Details
Title: PICTURESQUE EUROPE. ( Complete Set in 5 ...
Publisher: Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Birket Foster; Fenn, Harry; Wood L.J; Werner Carl and Others
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
