Brydges, Harford Jones

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, 8vo (215 x 127mm.), [iv], cxcii, 448, [viii] pp., half-title, 3 folding engraved maps, one folding plate, one ?additional lithographed portrait, hand-coloured and heightened in gold, contemporary pale calf, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, plate spotted, expertly rebacked with full gilt spine and red label

Wilson p.2 (under Abdur Razzaq); not traced in Ghani

Although rebacked, this is a fine copy
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Presentation copy, inscribed "To Mrs Knight, Downton Castle With Sir Harford Jones Brydges' kindest Regards". This work is rare and has not appeared at auction for 15 years when a copy was sold as part of the Burrell collection (sale in these rooms 14-15 October 1999, lot 126), though without the fine coloured portrait found in this copy.