Select Views of the Borough of Reading, and Adjacent Scenery.: RARE COLOURED PLATE BOOK
by TIMMS (WILLIAM HENRY)
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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CHELTENHAM, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Reading: Published May 19, 1823, by J. Rusher, King Street, Reading; and W.H. Timms, engraver, tinter of prints, and mounter of drawings, &c. No. 6, St. James's Place, Hampstead Road, London, 1823], title & dedication (with imprint) and 12 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue guards, contemporary half calf, marbled sides, neatly rebacked , slim oblong folio (25 x 33.5 cm)A very scarce colour plate book by Timms, with only one copy found (Yale).
The attractive views include: London Road from Reading; Horne Street & St. Giles Church; Duke Street from the Bridge; King Street; View of the Corn Market, Obelisk & St. Lawrence Church; St. Mary's Church; View of Reading from Red Lane; Part of Castle Street from the Turnpike; Coley House; Caversham Park; Sonning; and Caversham Bridge.
Abbey, Scenery 294
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bruce Marshall Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B575
- Title
- Select Views of the Borough of Reading, and Adjacent Scenery.
- Author
- TIMMS (WILLIAM HENRY)
- Illustrator
- Timms
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. Rusher
- Place of Publication
- Reading
- Date Published
- 1823
- Size
- folio
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Reading, topography, London, engraving,
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Glossary
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
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