Daniell, William and Richard Ayton.

First edition, 8 volumes bound in 4, large 4to (375 x 255mm.), aquatint dedication, 308 hand-coloured aquatint plates, plain lithograph of Kemaes Head, folding engraved map backed on linen, contemporary morocco gilt, gilt edges, crimson endpapers, [Abbey, Scenery 16; Tooley (1954) 177], occasional spotting, bindings very slightly worn

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, when appropriate.
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A fine copy of "the most important colour plate book on British topography" (Tooley).

This monumental work contains over 300 plates of very high quality, widely acclaimed, with, as Prideaux states in his Aquatint Engraving, "such a succession of beautiful colour plates scarcely to be found elsewhere... unsurpassed both in delicacy of drawing and tinting".

"While the inland counties of England had been so hackneyed by travellers... the coast has hitherto been most unaccountably neglected, and, if we except a few fashionable watering-places, is entirely unknown to the public... It is the design, therefore, of the following voyage, minutely to describe the whole coast round Great Britain" (introduction).

See additional illustration on page 91.