Beschreibung:

presentation copy from the author to his bookbinder, 8 engraved plates each in proof state , title with engraved vignette, extra-illustrated with, respectively, a lithographed portrait of the author to front endpaper, a hand-coloured lithographed view of Moor House, and the author's armorial bookplate at the end of the preface, bound in between front endpapers 3 ff. bearing the presentation inscription and a ms.document of an exchange between Maude and an admirer of his drawings, spotting and browning, offsetting, title and several ff. damp-stained at gutter and/or upper fore corner, upper hinge splitting a little, 19th-century green gilt morocco ?by Sumner, g.e., upper joint splitting a little, lower joint worn, [Sabin 46913], 4to, 1826. *** Presentation inscription: "Presented to Mr Oliver Sumner of York, In Testimony of Skill In Book-binding, By his Obliged Friend The Author. Moor-House near Wakefield September 21st 1840."