Picturesque Views Devonshire Cornwall (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G, 1st ed, 1826, 16 colour plates. In modern dark red half morocco, over the original worn boards, gilt tooling, original gilt title to gilt tooled black calf label. Internally, frontis, [4], 16 hand coloured aquatint plates with grey wash borders, each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, plates dated 1797 to 1803, plates watermarked Whatman 1822, text leaves watermarked 1824, printed by Howlett and Brimmer, original printed title label on front pastedown, some spotting, stains, and general toning, mostly to text and plate margins, adhesive tape removal mark, new old endpapers. (Oblong 4to, 265*210 mm). (Abbey Scenery 122; Tooley 365. Bobins 702). Uncommon per WorldCat & COPAC 2 copies only held in the UK - Nat. Museum of Wales & Cambridge, & few in the US. [PAYNE William] active 1776-1809 (illustrator).…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Contemporary Full Leather Binding, recased with original spine onlaid. Gilt horizontal divisions and gilt title on spine. Illustrated Title Pages and Frontis Maps for both the Cornish and Devon Sections. ( Devonshire has vignette illus. of Lydford Cascade and Cornwall vignette illus. of Logan Rock.) Printed Title Page, dated 1832. Devonshire has 106 p. pages and Cornwall has 48. 11" Tall, 1.35 Kilos. The views are arranged with 2 plates to a page, printed on one side of the paper. Some light foxing in fore margins, little elsewhere. No inscriptions. Text pages clean. Hinges sound and text block firm. A few small bits of leather missing from rear board, probably due to insect damage. Weighs nearly 1.5 Kilos packed so shipping Outside UK will be a little extra. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Allom, Thomas and Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Oblong 4to., (8 2/8 x 10 4/8 inches). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, and 15 fine plates watermarked 1824-1827 (some minor marginal spotting and offsetting of plates onto text leaves and guards). Contemporary half burgundy morocco, grey paper boards with gilt-lettering piece on the front cover (extremities worn with loss). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 335 First edition, including views in Monmouthshire, Devon, Cornwall, Glamorganshire, of churches, rivers, and other bucolic scenes. Payne's work was "highly admired and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master of the day. He numbered some professional artists among his pupils, including his eldest son, William Robert (who achieved little success), and John Glover, but he was more sought after as a teacher by aristocratic amateurs. As a result, a craze for manufacturing Payne-like landscapes became a feature of the fashionable London scene. After 1790 he ceased to exhibit for nineteen years and travelled in search of picturesque material to the west country and south Wales (from 1791), and later to the Isle of Wight, the Lake District, and north Wales. Payne's innovations, however, had advanced the boundaries of watercolour technique. His initial popularity and extensive teaching practice contributed greatly to the burgeoning interest in watercolour, both as a social accomplishment and as a serious field for collectors" (David Japes for DNB). Abbey 122; Tooley (1954) 365. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.…