represented in a Collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People. Taken on the Spot, at the twelve different Months of the Year: and accompanied with an Historical and Descriptive Account.
Howlett and Brimmer, and Dove for Edward Orme, London, 1815
First edition of one of the best illustrated books on Saint-Petersburg, fully hand-coloured. The twelve lovely views, taken at each month of the year, include the Imperial Bank, the Marble Palace, the Square with the Grand Theatre, The Imperial Palace, and the Great Bridge. Unique to this work are the eight plates of Russian carriages and sleighs and their occupants, all dressed in contemporary costume and boldly coloured.
Folio (48 x 33.2 cm). Frontispiece, title, 34 pp., 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by Clark and Dubourgh after Mornay, captions in English and French, text in English, 12 plates watermarked 1811, 1 plate - 1814; final text leaf misbound, torn across and repaired, plates slightly soiled, first 4 plates with short tears in margin (one just touching the image). Contemporary green boards, paper label to spine.
Abbey Travel 226 (first edition 1815); Martin Hardie, 138; Prideaux 345; Tooley (1954), 355.
Folio (48 x 33.2 cm). Frontispiece, title, 34 pp., 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by Clark and Dubourgh after Mornay, captions in English and French, text in English, 12 plates watermarked 1811, 1 plate - 1814; final text leaf misbound, torn across and repaired, plates slightly soiled, first 4 plates with short tears in margin (one just touching the image). Contemporary green boards, paper label to spine.
Abbey Travel 226 (first edition 1815); Martin Hardie, 138; Prideaux 345; Tooley (1954), 355.
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