Belgium: In a Picturesque Tour.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #44259
8vo, viii, 288pp. Full red morocco, with gilt borders and spine, with titles and date to the spine in gilt, stamped right on the leather, all edges gilt. Corners bumped, boards a little scuffed and scratched, joints and spine ends rubbed. The second half of the plates foxed, one guard with a tear, but overall good and clean throughout and the binding tight and square. 16 steel-engraved plates after Thomas Allom and a fore-edge painting exhibiting a view of the city of Ghent, with sailboats in the foreground, with a note in ink to the engraved title verso. Thomas Roscoe was an author and translator whose original books include travels, histories, and poems. Thomas Allom is best known for his illustrations for travel books. Lowndes, III, p. 2127.
Price (CAD): $700.00