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William Sams : A Tour Through Paris, Illustrated with Seventeen Colored Plates, Accompanied with Descriptive Letter-Press

William Sams, London, n.d., c. 1835

Contemporary 1/4 morocco with cloth boards, spine with 5 compartments of gilt tooled bands, all edges gilt. Endpapers renewed. , A tear in the title page invisibly repaired. Otherwise an excellent copy, text and plates are clean and crisp., Small folio, P. frontis, title, blank, (1), blank, 5-55., Complete with 17 hand coloured lithographs depicting life in Paris at the time.

There is a watermark present on one of the plates dated 1835.
This according to Abbey “cannot have appeared before 1828, and watermarks as late as 1833…containing seventeen plates only, the title (letterpress) altered to…Seventeen Coloured Plates, with a contents page, and the text increased so as to consist of numbered pages 5 to 55. The plates omitted are Numbers 8, 11, 12, and 14. It is perhaps more than a coincidence that these four plates are very closely copied from plates of the same title in Peake’s Characteristic Constume, Nos 85 and 87.� (Abbey Travel)
“Another edition, Title as before (with the exception of the word Seventeen instead of Twenty-one plates). . . plates 9, 11, 12, & 15 being omitted� (Tooley).
, Abbey Travel 113; Colas 2898; Hiler 775; Tooley 444

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