Book Description

engraved panorama with original hand-colouring, heightened with gum-arabic, on six sheets, linen-backed, surface dust to left and right end margins, occasional light finger mark in other margins, engraved city plan (115 x 175 mm.) mounted on verso of right end panel, a leporello (folding concertina-style) in original publisher’s pictorial upper and lower boards, edges a little worn, 7pp descriptive text, titled ‘Panoramic View of Edinburgh’ mounted inside lower cover, oblong 8vo
Dealer Notes
a beautifully coloured, and compact, folding panorama of Edinburgh, the Athens of the North, presented in six continuous panels, each view separately described in the 7-page booklet bound in at the back. The highly detailed plan, mounted behind the end panel, lists 120 places of interest. This appears to be a rare second edition of an already scarce panorama, originally published in January, 1847, by Ackermann & Co. and B.F. Lloyd, updated on the pictorial covers to October, 1848, still by Ackermann, but now with J. Menzies
Author Steuart (T.)
Date 1848
Binding publisher’s pictorial upper and lower boards
Publisher Ackermann & Co.; and J. Menzies, London and Edinburgh

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