11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 61
 

61

Banks, W. Views in the Lakes. c.1860s. 8vo, full green calf gilt by J. Coats & Son, Leeds,...

Banks, W.
Views in the Lakes. c.1860s. 8vo, full green calf gilt by J. Coats & Son, Leeds, spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, watered silk endpapers, a.e.g; 62 engravings of the Lake District by Banks.
There is no title-page to this collection of views, which is a shame, as it is not possible to be entirely sure what it is. The principal source of the images would seem to be Banks' Views of the English Lakes. However, the copies we have been able to trace are all oblong, with landscape orientation. Here, though the images are still landscape, they have been printed at the top of portrait pages - with corresponding blank space beneath. Additionally, Views appears to have had 26 plates, where this has 62. There look to be at least three distinct styles of presentation: the landscape oval vignettes mentioned above, oval portrait vignettes; and two side-by-side medallions. This does not take into consideration the variations in credits and paper-stock throughout. It is likely this was a privately-collected series, bound to order - though this does not explain the difference in page orientation, which affects the proportional harmony of the landscape images. A curious volume of Banks' attractive engravings.

Sold for £110
Estimated at £80 - £120


 

. Binding a touch rubbed and scuffed, a little dusty marking and occasional toned pages internally but an attractive copy.

 


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