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Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
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This beautifully engraved aquatint road book appears to have been published in parts. Indeed the finished work published in 1802 contains a series of fine aquatint views complete with its own title page. The accompanying list of contents bears an advert on the verso stating ‘Just published, Number IV. of the Imperial Guide; completing Volume I … The Author takes this opportunity most respectfully to notice, that the FIFTH or SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, on account of its unexpected magnitude, cannot be ready for delivery before the end of MAY next’. Indeed it is not believed to have been published at all. Volume I being all that was issued. Those plates which are dated vary from 1800 to August 1802. An unusual road book and a very rare and desirable one in very good condition. Provenance: with early ink ownership stamp of ‘GP’? Marlborough Rare Books 2001; private English collection. Fordham (1924) p. 46; Smith & Webb ‘James Baker’s Picturesque Plans’ in ‘The Map Collector’ no. 42 pp. 20-26; Worms & Baynton-Williams (2011).
BAKER, James
The Imperial Guide, with Picturesque Plans of the Great Post Roads, containing miniature likenesses, engraved from real sketches, of the Cities, Towns, Villages ... situated in and near such thoroughfares
London, 1802
Octavo (220 x 140 mm.) in full contemporary calf, gilt panelled, rebacked with blind ribbing preserving original red calf gilt title label, marbled endpapers. With frontispiece aquatint of London landmarks, aquatint title page, typographic title page, Address to the Public, List of Select Views with advert to the verso, 14 aquatint plates of the roads and 8 further aquatints, all in early wash colour, pp. iv, (2), 66. In good condition.
Stock number: 7276
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