Item #24035 Select views on the river Clyde. Engraved by Joseph Swan, from drawings by J. Fleming. With historical and descriptive illustrations. JOHN M. LEIGHTON.
Select views on the river Clyde. Engraved by Joseph Swan, from drawings by J. Fleming. With historical and descriptive illustrations.

Select views on the river Clyde. Engraved by Joseph Swan, from drawings by J. Fleming. With historical and descriptive illustrations.

Glasgow: Joseph Swan; London: Moon, Boys and Graves, 1830. First edition, 4to, pp. [4], iv, 168, [4] index, [4] subscribers; engraved vignette title-p., and 42 engraved plates; contemporary (Scottish?) straight-grain maroon morocco elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gilt-lettering direct on gilt-decorated spine incorporating thistles; joints tender, the whole moderately foxed, but still a worthy copy, in a binding seemingly meant for presentation, attested to by a very neat, calligraphic gift inscription on the blank flyleaf reading Mrs. T. Galloway / Sandhurst // with best wishes and love from her brother Alex Galloway / 1831." Item #24035

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