A PICTURESQUE TOUR OF THE ENGLISH LAKES, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs, de FIELDING, T. H., & J. Walton.:

London, R. Ackermann, 1821.. TITLE CONTINUED: and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of that part of the Country, &c. &c. Illustrated with Forty-Eight Coloured Views drawn during a Two Year Residence among the Lakes. 1821. Quarto, approximately 270 x 210 mm, 10¾ x 8 inches, illustrated with a hand-coloured vignette to title page and 48 hand-coloured aquatints which includes frontispiece, all with tissue guards, plates drawn by Fielding, and Walton during a two years residence among the lakes, dated 1820 or 1821 under the caption. Pages: viii, 1-288 pages, including half-title, pages water marked 1818 and 1820, examples on pages 64 and 261, bound in half wine coloured morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown of the Molineux family. Spine lightly rubbed, lower board scuffed with slight loss to marbled paper, minor shelf wear to edges and corners, small pale brown stain affecting the margins of 2 leaves and 2 plates, not affecting images, several plates have pale offset to skies, lacks first tissue guard, many tissue guards replaced, a little creasing and pale age-browning and foxing to the original tissue guards, occasional pale spot to margins, otherwise a very good copy. See: J.R. Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, page 119, No.192; R. V. Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates 1790 to 1860, page 183; Martin Hardie, English Coloured Books, pages 108,109 & 312; S. T. Prideaux, Aquatint Engravings, page 275 and 336. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.