delineated in a series of views of the principal towns & villages, watering places, palaces, castles, gentlemen's seats & romantic scenery;
with historical and descriptive illustrations by John M. Leighton, Esq.
Glasgow, Joseph Swan, ca.1840.
4to [28x23cm]. ppviii 239 plus 78 finely executed steel engraved plates, and an engraved title-page.
some foxing to title-page, and occasional light foxing thereafter, but generally very clean. upper hinge a little slack. bruising to corners.
a fine early 19th century Scottish plate book, combining 'Select Views of the River Clyde' and 'Select Views of Glasgow and its Environs', and containing engravings by Joseph Swan illustrating the Clyde from its upper reaches, the city of Glasgow, and the river and firth of Clyde as far as Campbeltown.
an unusually good condition example in the original ribbed cloth decorated in gilt and blind, and with all edges gilt.
