1833 Bury's Three Sanctuaries of Tuscany italy lovely aquatints LANDSEER etching

Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - FROM THE LIBRARY OF ERNEST AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND TEVIOTDALE, AND KING OF HANOVER - WITH SIX LARGE AQUATINTS OF THE TUSCANY REGION AND AN ETCHING BY THOMAS LANDSEER -BURY (Lady Charlotte Susan Maria, née Campbell, English novelist and writer, 1775-1861)The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem with Historical and Legendary Notices (London): John Murray, 1833. First edition. Brown cloth binding, with morocco title label to upper board. xi, 139pp. Illustrated with etched frontispiece by Thomas Landseer, engraved portrait plate, and 6 sepia aquatints. Oblong folio (large coffee table sized book - 15.25in x 11in).Very Good condition. Small chip to cloth at top of spine. Some rubbing and marking to boards and edges. Hinges and binding solid. Some dirt and edgewear to boards and spine. Some sunning and occasional dirt spots to text pages. Foxing to frontispiece, and some to margins. Some dirt to edges of engraved portrait plate. Some foxing to borders of aquatints, specially Plate 1, but plates are generally still in nice condition. Sunning to edges of text pages. Small marginal stain affecting inside upper corner, just touching the top inner margin of plates well away from images. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images.A beautiful work, this volume covers Lady Charlotte Bury's trip to Tuscany with her late husband, Reverend Edward Bury. The book consists of three separate sections on each place mentioned. Each section starts with a historical review of the area, and is followed by a poem inspired by Bury's visit.The text is accompanied by 6 stunning sepia aquatints of views in the region: the Ponte della Santa Trinita; two views of Valombrosa; two views of Camaldoli; and one of Laverna. There is some foxing to the edges of the aquatints (minimal to 2), but the plates themselves are still in beautiful condition. The aquatints are engraved by Thomas Lupton after the drawings of Edmund Bury. There are 2 further plates, an etched frontispiece (by Thomas Landseer), and an engraved portrait plate of the author.This is a handsome volume, of considerable interest to collectors, not only for its scarcity, but also for its provenance. This volume is from the library of Ernest Augustus (1771-1851), the fifth son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. After a distinguished military career with the Hanoverian hussars (he lost an eye at Tournai in 1794), he returned to England and was created Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale in 1799. In 1837, at the accession of Victoria, he became King of Hanover. This work includes his distinctive red library stamp at the verso of the title page. Furthermore he is referred to in the list of subscribers to the volume as the Duke of Cumberland.]. key words:

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