Views in Australia or New South Wales, & Van Diemen's Land delineated, in fifty views, : with descriptive letter press, ... / by J. Lycett, artist to Major General Macquarie, ...
Joseph Lycett (b.1744?)
Category
Books
Date
1824 - 1825
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3131573
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], ii, [2], 15, [1]; [96] p., [50] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps ; obl. 4to. Coloured plates. Dedication leaf bound directly after title page; pagination: [4], ii, 15, [1]; [96] p., [50] leaves of plates (2 folded) (engraved title page not counted as a plate). Pencil tick on front pastedown. Pencil price on rear pastedown: "£90/-/.". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript description of this copy on verso of headed paper of 'Chas. J. Sawyer. Ltd Booksellers 12 & 13. Grafton Street London. W.1'. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half dark blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Lycett's Australia'.
Makers and roles
Joseph Lycett (b.1744?), original artist