London : Printed for J. Hassell, 27, Richard-Street, Islington... 1819. First Edition 8vo, [-]4, B-K8, L4, 24 aquatint plates in original hand-colouring, contemporary leather binding, gilt roll-tool borders with acanthus leaves and lilies, fully gilt spine, morocco label, marbled fly-leaves, pastedowns, and edges, front hinge strengthened, corners a little worn, plates are all clean but some have lightly set off on text page, a reasonably good copy. John Hassell, a watercolour painter and engraver, was born in 1767 and was probably the individual of that name, son of John and Ann Hassell, who was baptized in November 1767 at St Mary, Whitechapel, Stepney. He exhibited twenty paintings at the Royal Academy between 1789 and 1819, including many…
London : Printed for J. Hassell, 27, Richard-Street, Islington... 1819. First Edition
8vo, [-]4, B-K8, L4, 24 aquatint plates in original hand-colouring, contemporary leather binding, gilt roll-tool borders with acanthus leaves and lilies, fully gilt spine, morocco label, marbled fly-leaves, pastedowns, and edges, front hinge strengthened, corners a little worn, plates are all clean but some have lightly set off on text page, a reasonably good copy.
John Hassell, a watercolour painter and engraver, was born in 1767 and was probably the individual of that name, son of John and Ann Hassell, who was baptized in November 1767 at St Mary, Whitechapel, Stepney. He exhibited twenty paintings at the Royal Academy between 1789 and 1819, including many scenes of waterfalls, castles, and salmon leaps in Wales, and of houses and cities, including a view of the city of Bath (ODNB)
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London : Printed for John Newton, at the Three Pigeons, over-against the Inner-Temple-Gate, in Fleet Street, 1694. First Edition
8vo, [-]6-1. B-P8, Q4, 1 folding map, cont. sprinkled calf, moroccon label on spine, edges sprinkled red, hinges a littleworn, small loss at foot of spine, otherwise sound, engraved armorial bookplate of “James Leigh Esq. Adlestrop” (an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother) on front pastedown and his signature on front fly.
Falle's Account of Jersey, 1694, which included discussion of the island's institutions and natural history, was the first and for a long time the standard work on Jersey, reprinted as late as 1837. The present copy once belonged to an ancestor of Jane Austen’s mother, Cassandra.
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Tour of the Grand Junction, Illustrated in a Series of Engravings; With an Historical and Topographical Description of Those Parts of the Counties... Through which the Canal Passes.
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Account of the Isle of Jersey, The Greatest of those Islands that are now the only Remainder of the English Dominions in France, With A New and Accurate Map of that Island
