Local Interest - Croston (James), Chantrey's Peak Scenery, O...

Hammer

£80

Local Interest - Croston (James), Chantrey's Peak Scenery, Or Views in Derbyshire, Engraved by W.B. and George Cooke After Drawings by Sir Francis L. Chantrey, R.A., With Historical and Topographical Descriptions, the only copy printed on Japanese vellum, Frank Murray, Derby and Hamilton, Adams, & Co., London, 1886, 15pp, 29 etched and engraved plates, full contemporary vellum, each board gilt embossed with title and the Anglo-Saxon Eyam churchyard cross, raised banded spine enclosing brown leather title label, marbled endpapers, gilt-edged text block, crown folio; working unfinished proof copy, Bemrose (William), The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., Commonly Called ''Wright of Derby'', With a Preface by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, Bemrose & Sons, London [c. 1885], [12] and further blank pages, all contemporaneously bound, including title-page, 4 pages of first chapter, full-page plates, further illustrations applied, some annotated in pencil, green buckram boards, gilt embossed title, crown folio (2)