Book Description

13 finely executed steel line engravings printed on separate coated cards (140 x 90 mm) preserved in a decorative paper-wrapper. Printed on one-side coated paper. This paper called enamel paper, burnished paper or gloss paper is coated with a mixture of materials providing a smooth, enamel-like surface for writing and printing, the coatings are often burnished or calendared to produce a glossy finish. Hand-coating and hand-brushing only started to be replaced by automated production of coating paper as of 1852. (Dianne van der Reyden, 1993) No. I in a 4-part series entitled Souvenir of the North.
Dealer Notes
With a few exceptions, the views are engraved by John Gellatly (1802-1859), Scottish draughtsman, engraver and lithographer. Dean Bridge and Trinity Chapel are drawn and engraved by J. Stephenson. Burn's monument is by Robert S. Tait (1816?-1897), portrait painter and portrait photographer, active 1845-1875. Scott's Monument "to be erected" [1840-1844] by George Meikle Kemp (1795-1844), self-taught Scottish architect designed and built the monument. G.M. Kemp, poorly ed­u­cated son of a shep­herd show­ing tal­ents in wood­work­ing as a child, was ap­pren­ticed to a joiner and mill­wright. He was able to mem­o­rise exact de­tails of build­ings and mea­sure pre­cise dis­tances by eye, Kemp is con­sid­ered to have been high on the autism spec­trum. (Morven Leese)
Author John Gellatly et al
Date n.d. [c. 1855?]
Binding Illustrated original gold and colour lithographed paper wrapper
Publisher Edinburgh: John Menzies,
Illustrator John Gellatly; J. Stephenson; Robert S. Tait; G. M. Kemp
Condition Wrapper split, chipped, light spot & mildly dust soiled back. Cards in excellent condition save very slight chipping of coating to upper margin of 3 cards, Pencil-marked “112” on front wrapper and on verso of the cards.
Pages 13 steel line engravings

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