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A fine set of Thames views and aquatints. Volume One features views and description of the upper part of the Thames, from Gloucestershire to Henley. Volume Two covering the lower part of the river through Lon- don. Views include Magdalen Bridge, Oxford, Henley Bridge, Goring, Abingdon and Richmond. Samuel Ireland,1744-1800, was an author, collector and etcher whose series of volumes of picturesque views have always been highly regard- ed. Ireland began life as a weaver in Spitalfields, then turned engraver and print dealer, and became fanatical collector. His collection was sold at Christie’s anonymously on 6 May 1797. His son William Henry Ireland perpetrated the famous Shakespeare forgery.
This map shows Oxfordshire and its towns as it was in 1605, including a detailed map of the town of Oxford, in addition to parts of Warwick- shire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire. The vertical borders are decorated with the coats of arms of Oxford colleges, includ- ing Trinity College, Corpus Christi College, and Balliol College. LITERATURE: The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine by John Speed (1676) 59. IRELAND, Samuel PICTURESQUE VIEWS ON THE RIVER THAMES From its Source in Gloucestershire to the Nore; With Observations on the Public Buildings and Other Works of Art in its Vicinity. Egerton, 1792. First edition. Two volumes. Rebound in half green calf over mar- bled boards, raised bands to the spines, lettered in gilt with four gilt vignettes. Top edge black. Fifty-two sepia aquatint plates, each protected by the original tissue guard, two engraved aqua-
60. MENPES, Mortimer; MITTON, G.E. THE THAMES Painted by Mortimer Menpes and text by G.E. Mitton A & C Black, 1906. First edition. Slate blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration in white, blue and green, depicting Thames scenes and elegant white swans. Top edge gilt. Fifty-five full page colour illustra - tions and twenty colour chapter headings by Menpes, plus a fold out map to the rear. A very good copy of one of the most
beautiful colour illustrated Thames books, ink name to front pastedown and front hinge tender. Some early pages with green ink marks. [46267] £175 This book is the only one to include col- our illustrations for chapter headings. To achieve this the publishers had to print these pages on coated stock and this gives the book an expensive feel - so expensive that the experiment was not repeated. One of 3000 copies in the 20/- series.
tint title pages and two engraved maps. A very good set, some small marks and scratches to the spine and boards, occasional foxing to the pages, some plates causing offsetting to opposite pages. [46535] £450
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