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Heath's Picturesque Annual:Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland
Leitch Ritchie
1833
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green : London
8" by 5.5"
256pp
SUMMARY
A wonderful first edition of this piece of travel writing set in Europe, richly illustrated and in a leather binding.
First Edition,Illustrated,Leather Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Written by Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865), a Scottish writer and travel writer who published a number of articles in periodicals, edited The Era and Indian News and Chronicle of Eastern Affairs. He also penned worked such as 'The British World in the East', 'A View of the Opium Trade', 'Liber Fluviorum, or River Scenery of France'. The travel journal 'Heath's Picturesque Annual' was commissioned by the publisher and engraver Charles Heath, and subsequently ran between 1832 and 1845.
Profusely illustrated with steel engravings by celebrated English painter Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) throughout. With an illustrated full plate frontispiece and half title page.
With a gilt spine and emblem to the front cover.
CONDITION
In a full straight grain morocco binding. Externally very smart, a little bumped to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean bar the odd instance of age-toning.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
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Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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