Bird (Charles). Picturesque Old Bristol. A Series of Fifty-Two Etchings ... with Letterpress by John Taylor, 2 volumes, Bristol: Frost and Reed, 1885, 53 etched sepia plates (including frontispiece), tissue-guards, volume 2 with half-title, index leaf and publisher's notice, offsetting to tissue-guards, occasional spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt, joints & extremities rubbed and slightly worn, large 4to, together with Egan (Pierce), Walks through Bath, Describing every thing worthy of interest connected with the Public Buildings, the Rooms, Crescents, Theatre, Concerts, Baths, its Literature, &c. including Walcot and Widcombe, and the Surrounding Vicinity; with Sketches of Prior Park House, the Rocks of Wick, Corsham House..., also an Excursion to Clifton and Bristol Hot-Wells..., Bath: Meyler & Son, 1819, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 20 plates, bound with Tunstall (James), Rambles about Bath, and its Neighbourhood, 2nd edition, 1848, engraved frontispiece and 13 plates, without map, occasional spotting, all edges gilt, near contemporary half morocco, slight loss of leather at head of spine, old small paper label to central panel, extremities rubbed, thick 8vo (Qty: 3) Picturesque Old Bristol: Limited edition 7/125. 25 copies of the artist proof edition were printed on large paper, with each etching signed by the artist. There were also as here 125 unlettered proof copies on smaller paper, and 240 sets of etchings without letterpress; the publisher's notice in the second volume notes that many of the latter were sent to the colonies.
Bird (Charles). Picturesque Old Bristol. A Series of Fifty-Two Etchings ... with Letterpress by John Taylor, 2 volumes, Bristol: Frost and Reed, 1885, 53 etched sepia plates (including frontispiece), tissue-guards, volume 2 with half-title, index leaf and publisher's notice, offsetting to tissue-guards, occasional spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt, joints & extremities rubbed and slightly worn, large 4to, together with Egan (Pierce), Walks through Bath, Describing every thing worthy of interest connected with the Public Buildings, the Rooms, Crescents, Theatre, Concerts, Baths, its Literature, &c. including Walcot and Widcombe, and the Surrounding Vicinity; with Sketches of Prior Park House, the Rocks of Wick, Corsham House..., also an Excursion to Clifton and Bristol Hot-Wells..., Bath: Meyler & Son, 1819, half-title, engraved frontispiece and 20 plates, bound with Tunstall (James), Rambles about Bath, and its Neighbourhood, 2nd edition, 1848, engraved frontispiece and 13 plates, without map, occasional spotting, all edges gilt, near contemporary half morocco, slight loss of leather at head of spine, old small paper label to central panel, extremities rubbed, thick 8vo (Qty: 3) Picturesque Old Bristol: Limited edition 7/125. 25 copies of the artist proof edition were printed on large paper, with each etching signed by the artist. There were also as here 125 unlettered proof copies on smaller paper, and 240 sets of etchings without letterpress; the publisher's notice in the second volume notes that many of the latter were sent to the colonies.
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