London, Day & Son, 1856
Inscribed copy. A good association copy of this rare series of views. Inscribed by the artist to 'his friend', Major Charles Henry Owen, whose Sketches in the Crimea was also published in 1856. Includes a double-page panoramic view of Sebastopol.
First edition; landscape folio (37.5 x 58.5 cm); signed presentation inscription from the author, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates (1 double-page), title extremities repaired, a few plates with repairs and reinforcement to fore-edge, light foxing; original blindstamped blue cloth gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, a good copy.
Bobins 185; not in Abbey, Atabey or Blackmer.
First edition; landscape folio (37.5 x 58.5 cm); signed presentation inscription from the author, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates (1 double-page), title extremities repaired, a few plates with repairs and reinforcement to fore-edge, light foxing; original blindstamped blue cloth gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, a good copy.
Bobins 185; not in Abbey, Atabey or Blackmer.
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