Swarbreck, Samuel D.

Sketches in Scotland. London: C. Hullmandel, 1839



Folio (20 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.; 525 x 365 mm). Tinted lithographed title-page, lithographed dedication leaf, 25 handcolored lithographed plates; title-page, dedication leaf and list of contents heavily foxed, some marginal foxing to plates, occasionally migrating to the image. Half green morocco, green cloth boards, upper cover lettered gilt, morocco lettering piece on spine, plain endpapers; extremities worn, some loss to foot of spine.

Abbey, Scenery 492

Folio (20 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.; 525 x 365 mm). Tinted lithographed title-page, lithographed dedication leaf, 25 handcolored lithographed plates; title-page, dedication leaf and list of contents heavily foxed, some marginal foxing to plates, occasionally migrating to the image. Half green morocco, green cloth boards, upper cover lettered gilt, morocco lettering piece on spine, plain endpapers; extremities worn, some loss to foot of spine.
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First edition, rarely found with handcoloring. A London-based painter of architecture and interiors, Swarbreck executed these sketches of Scottish  landscapes, buildings and antiquities during a tour of that country in 1837.