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001 $ 06/4642
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Robson
245 1 0 $a Scenery Of The Grampian Mountains; Illustrated By Forty-One Plates, Representing The Principal Hills From Such Points As Display Their Picturesque Features; Diversified By Lakes And Rivers: With An Explanatory Page Affixed To Each Plate, Giving An Account Of Those Objects Of Natural Curiosity And Historical Interest, With Which The District Abounds. By George Fennell Robson, Member Of The Society Of Painters In Oil And Watercolours, London. The Engravings Executed By Henry Morton, And Coloured From Original Drawings Made On The Spot By The Author. -
260 # # $a London: $b Published By Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, Paternoster-Row. - $c 1819.
300 # # $a [46] f., 41 pl. (incl. frontis.), map (fold.); $c 535 mm.
505 0 # $a [Frontis. (= pl.1), t.p., dedic.] - List Of Subscribers - Preface - [Fold. map] - [Plates, and explanatory texts]; [colophon] - Index [i.e. list of plates].
508 # # $a No plate is signed. The folding map is signed as engraved by W. & D. Lizars of Edinburgh.

The text printer is named in the colophon: 'London. Printed By J. McCreery, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street.'

The work is dedicated by George Fennell Robson to the Duke of Atholl.
510 0 # $a R.V. Tooley, English Books With Coloured Plates 1790 To 1860 A Bibliographical Account (1954, repr. 1987), no. 405, p.328.
520 2 # $a The plates show views. All are coloured aquatints.
561 # # $a The front pastedown carries a 19th-century armorial bookplate of Henry Harris. The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil 'S:A:H' (i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Academy 1864-81).
563 # # $a 19th-century diced calf, upper and lower covers carrying gilt neoclassical borders; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'Grampian Mountains - Robson'.
600 1 4 $a Robson
653 # # $a Mountains - Landscapes (environments) - Great Britain - Scotland - Grampian (Scotland) - Grampians (Scotland) - Cairngorms (Scotland) - History - 19th century
653 # # $a Drawings - Watercolors (paintings) - Landscapes (representations) - Great Britain - 19th century - Picturesque, the
655 # 0 $a Views - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Aquatints - Hand coloring - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Morton $e engraver
700 1 # $a Lizars $e engraver
700 1 # $a Atholl $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Harris $e previous owner
710 2 # $a Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown $e publisher
710 2 # $a McCreery $e printer
710 2 # $a W. and D. Lizars (Edinburgh) $e engraver