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Condition: Good. 8vo. 15 x 24cm. [8], 228, [12], 212pp. and 50 hors text color plates.Contemporary half Russian leather with corners, richly decorated ribbed spine, tan title label, gilt place and date at the bottom, gilt edges.)Rare first edition, dedicated to the future George IV, then Prince Regent of the United Kingdom. The illustration consists of 50 plates of Swiss costumes engraved with dots and finely colored, and 1 plate of engraved music. Some compositions are copies after König. "This collection of Swiss costumes executed with great delicacy and taste, is a true Keepsake in the English manner, where the typography and the paper compete in finesse and purity with the engravings" (Bulletin du bibliophile). Handwritten bookplate on the half-title. Joints restored and browned, some retinted scratches, scattered foxing not affecting or barely affecting the plates, half-title of the 2nd t. not preserved, otherwise a good copy.Ann Cope Yosy's date of birth, parentage, and upbringing are obscure, although she later claimed to have been partly educated at a 'celebrated Institution'where she learned Latin, German, and French, as well as Mathematics, History, and Natural History.On 30 July 1802, at Hanover Square, London, Ann Cope married John Yosy, of Berne, possibly a Swiss agriculturalist. They appear to have removed to Switzerland soon after and remained there until 1813, Ann Yosy publishing her account of her experiences in Switzerland, as Now Divided into Nineteen Cantons (1815) not long after her return to England. Her only other known publication, a novel entitled Constancy and Leopold, appeared in 1818, although in future years Yosy would write to would-be benefactors that she was in possession of many volumes worth of manuscript material, some of which might have found its way into print on the continent. References; (Brunet, V, col. 1509 ; Colas, n° 3102 ; Techener, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1840, n° 843.); OCLC Number / Unique Identifier 6269689.

Condition: Good. Folio. Original boards with later morocco spine and corners. 19 x 14 inches. 48 x 35cm. 12 double page engravings measuring 19 x 26.5 inches. 48 x 67 cm. Light to moderate foxing. Small wormhole in the lower right blank corner of a few pages.Printed by Howlett & Brimmer.According to no. 1346 in Quaritch catalogue no, 252 from 1904, the same engravings with letterpress descriptions were also published in 1816 by Harper and Co., so they presumable also published this edition without text. OCLC Number: 10691768, lacking 4 plates; and 181773865.The titles of the engravings are: View of Paris from the South Boulevard; View of Paris from Montmartre; South View of the Old and New Louvre; The Mint and The Façade of the Louvre; View of La Place de la Concorde; The Garden of the West Front of the Tuileries; Palace of the Tuileries Facing La Place du Carrousel; Garden of the Tuileries; The Luxembourg or Palais du Senat with the Gardens; The Elysian Fields, Distant Gardens of the Tuileries; Entrance to Les Champs Élysées and La Place de la Concorde; he Military School and the Church of the InvalidesLondon, Howlett et Brimmer, sd. (1816), in-folio relié demi-chagrin postérieur avec couverture d'origine contrecollée sur le premier plat.Album regroupant, après la page de titre, 12 grandes gravures doubles, montées sur onglets, des plus grands graveurs anglais dont Dadley, Sparrow, Angus et Porter. Les gravures sont d'un format 480 x 680 mm. Rousseurs claires et quelques traces d'humiditéLes gravures représentent des panoramas de Paris vus du sud et de Montmartre, le Louvre, la place du Carrousel, les Tuileries et ses jardins, les quais de la Seine, la Place de la Concorde, les Champs-Elysées, le Luxembourg et les Invalides.