Picturesque Views On the Upper, Warwickshire Avon, From Its Source At Naseby to Its Junction With The Severn At Jewkesbury: With Observations On The Public Buildings and Other Works of Art In Its Vicinity.

IRELAND, Samuel.

Published by London: PUblished by R. Raulder. 1795.

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First edition. Sm.4to., full contemporary calf with has been rebacked with a later 19th century leather spine, leather labels, xviii, 284pp. With 30 engravings in sepia drawn by the author, 2 portraits and 1 map, and woodcuts in the text. This copy has been professionally rebacked with in the late 19th century with a calf spine and has had the inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape, bookplate, o/w this is a very nice copy. Samuel Ireland [?- 1800] author and engraver. Ireland began working as a weaver, but soon took to dealing in prints and drawings and devoted his leisure to teaching himself drawing and engraving. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784. Between 1780-85 he etched plates after Hogarth and John Mortimer. In 1790 he began his Picturesque tour books, starting with France, Holland and then several English rivers, such as the above. In the preface Ireland states , that the above work, "explores this gentle river, together with the various others so greatly conductive to the health and fertility of our Island, to delineate their many picturesque beauties, and to become their historian has been the avowed purpose of the author of this work.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Picturesque Views On the Upper, Warwickshire Avon, From Its Source At Naseby to Its Junction With The Severn At Jewkesbury: With Observations On The Public Buildings and Other Works of Art In Its Vicinity.
• Publisher: London: PUblished by R. Raulder. 1795.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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