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Title(s):
A Picturesque description of North Wales : embellished with twenty select views from nature.
Additional Title(s):
Views in North Wales
Published/Created:
London : Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26, Haymarket; Printed at the Columbian Press, by Howlett and Brimmer, 10, Frith Street, Soho, 1823.
Physical Description:
[41] leaves : ill. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA740.N6 P5 1823+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA740.N6 P5 1823+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3463627
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letter-press text and guard sheet.
Cover title: Views in North Wales.
Half t.p.: Views in North Wales.
Plates all dated 1822.
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 525
BAC: Two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Paper label pasted inside front cover of both copies: Picturesque views in North Wales. Coloured Engravings. Price £2: 12s: 6d in extra boards. Half t.p. : Views in North Wales. Copy 2 lacks half t.p.
Subject Terms:
Columbian Press -- Printer.
Howlett and Brimmer -- Printer.
M'Lean, Thomas -- Publisher.
Wales -- Pictorial works.
Wales, North -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1823.
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  • View on the River Dee
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  • Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire
  • Dolbadron Castle, on Llanberris Lake, Caernarvonshire
  • Llanberris Lake and Dolbadron Castle
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  • View in Nant Gwynant
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  • River Glass Llyn, Caernarvonshire
  • Mountain of Cnight, Merionethshire
  • Head of the Vale of Festiniog, Merionethshire
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  • Dolgetty Bridge
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  • Interior of Goodrich Castle

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