Boys. Original Views of London As It Is, 1842

BOYS, THOMAS SHOTTER

Original views of London as it is. Thomas Boys, printseller to the Royal Family, 1842

folio (540 x 355mm.), engraved dedication, additional pictorial lithographed title and 25 plates all with fine later hand-colouring, letterpress text by Charles Ollier in English and French printed recto only, publisher's maroon morocco-backed cloth, gilt vignette and lettering on upper cover, minor browning and spotting, rebacked retaining original spine, modern endpapers, spine and corners rubbed

"A book of considerable importance; apart from the beauty of its plates, it records London at a period when good pictorial records were few" (Abbey)

LITERATURE:

cf. Abbey, Scenery 240 (uncoloured)

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