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[WEST (T)] A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. By the Author of 'The Antiquities of Furness'. The Sixth Edition. 'THE EARLIEST GUIDE TO PICTURESQUE MOUNTAIN SCENERY'
W. Richardson, J. Robson, W. Clarke and W. Pennington, 1796 8vo., Sixth Edition, with a fine engraved frontispiece, an engraved plate and a folding engraved map, some very light offsetting from frontispiece to title; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back ruled in gilt with red leather label lettered in gilt, joints very lightly rubbed else a notably fresh, crisp, clean copy in well-preserved period binding. A splendid copy, complete in every particular with the decorative half-title, decorative divisional title to the addenda, and 3 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. This classic work, 'the earliest guide to picturesque mountain scenery', was first published in 1778.The frontispiece depicting Grasmere is by Caldwall after Feary; the view of Lowdore (first appearing the previous edition of 1793) is by Byrne after Farington. The fine map is engraved by Paas after a sketch by A. Walker. In the addenda to this edition 'Some remarks on the provincial words' is replaced by 'Mrs Radcliffe's description of the scenery in a ride over Skiddaw'.Anderson, p.30; Bicknell, 13.6; Hodgson, p.289; oddly, Upcott records only the tenth edition of 1812.
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