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Heriot, George
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Travels Through the Canadas. London: Richard Phillips, 1807
- Paper, ink, leather
4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.; 265 x 206 mm). Folding aquatint frontispiece view of Quebec, 26 aquatint plates (5 folding), one hand-colored folding map; some foxing throughout. Later brown half calf over marbles boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt-lettered red morocco label to second, others with gilt rules, overall rubbing to extremities with some loss to calf.
Literature
Abbey, Travel 618; Hill (2004) 801; Sabin 31489; Staton & Tremaine 805
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION of one of "the earliest and most important aquatint books published on Canada" (Hill). Heriot was an accomplished artist and the work is illustrated with plates based on his own drawings. The plates of the uncolored issue, present here, were often colored later, and more heavily printed in black with a light yellow wash.