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EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY.

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Large folio, 10 x 15 inches, within which are skilfully let in the leaves of the quarto first edition with additional illustrations. viii + 140 pp. + 103 pp. with the 8 plates of the first edition and 13 additional plates (see list below). A previous owner, in an old hand, has added 4 sides of neat manuscript index.

Notes

The additional plates are as follows and include six of the twenty-four rare Walker views: Buck's View of Richborough from the North-West, 1735; Stukely's double view of Portus Rutupiae from Sandwich, and South-West view of Richborough Castle, 1722; The Gentleman's Magazine illustration of The Palace of Ford, with Salmeston Grange, and Minster Church and Manor House, 1811; Walker's Thorn Farm in Minster, 1812; A Plan of Ramsgate Harbour from Smeaton's Historical Report, 1791; Stockdale's View of St. Lawrence Church, 1810, from his Etchings of Antiquities in the County of Kent, of which only 250 copies were published; A View of Broadstairs, engraved from a drawing by Nixon, showing the famous archway; Walker's Stone House, nr Broadstairs, 1812; Walker's Helicon Dale, nr Ramsgate, 1812; Sewell's view of King's Gate, near Margate, Kent, from the European Magazine, 1787; Walker's view of Kingsgate; his view of Joss Stairs, Kingsgate; and of Kingsgate from the Sands, all 1812. The aquatints by George Walker were published in his Twenty-Four Picturesque Views of the Isle of Thanet. Letting-in involves cutting a hole in a larger, heavier leaf, that is slightly smaller than the leaf of the work to be mounted, and pasting the smaller leaf over the aperture, thus exposing both sides of the leaf, much in the manner of a pane of glass in a window frame.