BIJOU MINIATURE PICTURE BOOK OF LONDON 1850

BIJOU MINIATURE PICTURE BOOK OF LONDON 1850

£250.00

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[ANON]. Bijou Picture of London, or the Gems of the Metropolis. London: Published by Rock, Brothers & Payne, n.d. [1850].

First edition, leather-bound, hardcover, miniature (3cm x 2.5cm x 0.5cm), pp. 32. Black flexible roan wrappers richly and ornamentally stamped in gilt on the front cover which is lettered, lithographed title and exceptional quality views of London on one side of the leaf only, all edges gilt. With thirty-one lithographic views of London include the British Museum, Whitehall, Horse Guards Parade, Hungerford Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, Christ's Hospital, etc. Condition: VERY GOOD. Covers very well-preserved, the interior lightly toned, one leaf with small chip at fore edge, otherwise a fine and rare example. (Welsh 1282, Bondy p. 152, Spielmann No. 58).