[Aquatint Views] "Chester"

n.p. n.p., 1818.

Oblong octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches [Chester,1818]. Original or contemporary blue-gray “sugar’ paper wrappers, with original light pink label on cover. This is a very scarce collection of eleven hand-numbered aquatint and soft ground etched views, with only one copy located (in an institution, see below). Hand-numbered 1-11 in the blank top right-hand corner, and with the contemporary name John Harrison at the head of the first plate. Several plates are signed in the print “drawn and etched by G[eorge] Batenham, 1815. Later stitching, and spine paper absent. The Yale Center for British Art records a copy, also with eleven views, and plates dated 1815-1818. The binding also appears to be identical. Includes: South Side of the N. Gate; Dee Bridge & Mills; East Gate; Water Tower; Bridge Gate, Chester, taken down in 1781, engraved from a drawing by Wilkinson. The plates are in very good clean condition.

Price: $550.00   Item #6560