[Grey, William]

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Sketches of Newfoundland and Labrador. Ipswich: Printed and published by S.H. Cowell, Anastatic Press, [1858?]

Oblong folio (320 x 402mm.), lithographed pictorial title and 24 plates, 3 leaves of letterpress "Preface" describing the plates, modern green half morocco

Catalogue Note

Rare. The work is not recorded in Lande, Staton and Tremaine or Sabin and there is only one copy recorded at auction since 1975 (sold in 1983).

Grey was a priest who from 1848 served as secretary to Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland. The sketches which he made on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador in the summer of 1857 he hoped "may also serve to show what is the character of the scenery of a country very little known, and very often underrated".