Nathaniel Parker Willis: Canadian Scenery, Illustrated From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett (Hand Coloured)

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Nathaniel Parker Willis : Canadian Scenery, Illustrated From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett (Hand Coloured)

James Virtue, London, c. 1842

Contemporary ½ gilt morocco with cloth boards, spine with 6 gilt floral designed compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. , A very good copy. Plates and text are clean., 4to. , P. engraved title, blank, plate listing, blank, title, blank, 1-128; frontis, engraved title, blank, title, blank, plate listing, blank, 1-116., Volume one contains frontispiece portrait of W.H. Bartlett, title page with an engraved vignette titled “Wigwam in the Forest”, and a general map. Volume two contains engraved frontispiece entitled “Montreal from the Mountain”, and title page with engraved vignette entitled “The horse-shoe falls” all by Bartlett. In total there are 118 plates, of which 114 are finely hand-coloured.
, Volume : 2 Volumes in 1.

“I. Grayson Smith” ex-libris above title.

Bartlett made four voyages to the United States and Canada between the years 1836 and 1852, the fruits of which appeared in American Scenery in 1840 and Canadian Scenery in 1842 with text by N.P. Willis”(Harper). “In autumn of 1836 in company with Willis he visited Niagara Falls and presumably was briefly in Canada. Journeyed from Halifax to Niagara in1838, completing 117 sepia wash drawings which were engraved and published with text by Willis in a two volume Canadian Scenery in 1840 (DNB). The engravings were produced by Willis, Cousen and others. , Alston 7673; Sabin 3786; Lande 2310.

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