1836 Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A first edition.

Illustrated with an engraved title page, twelve plates, and further vignettes. The work of G. Dodgson. Collated, complete.

A charming topographical work exploring the scenery around the Whitby and Pickering railway, in the north-eastern part of Yorkshire.

Henry Belcher offers descriptions to accompany the engraved illustrations. With appendixes containing an account of the murder of the monk of Whitby, a list of native plants, and an account of the opening of the railway.

With the inscription of Lavinia Shooter to the front free endpaper, and the bookplate of the Library of the United College, Bradford, to the front pastedown.

Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.

With errata to rear.

The artist George Haydock Dodgson (1811-1880) exhibited at the Society of British Artists from 1835 and was a member of the Old Watercolour Society. After taking sketching tours of Wales, Cumberland and Yorkshire, he mainly sketched public buildings and produced work for architects in London. He also designed plates for the ‘Illustrated London News’.