The Lake Scenery of England, with a descriptive letterpress by Llewellynn Jewitt, F. S. A.,

Leeds: D. Banks, (1870) , DELUXE ISSUE, with 24 finely hand-coloured lithograph plates mounted on thick card, each plate with captioned tissue-guards, all edges gilt, original decorative green cloth gilt, folio

This DeLuxe edition not in Abbey.
A scarce set, rarer than the deluxe issue of Pyne’s The English Lake District. This title in the deluxe format was also published by Henry Sotheran in 1870.

Landscape painter James Baker Pyne was born in Bristol, where he worked as a self-taught artist until the age of 35. He gave painting lessons to William James Müller, who later became an artist of repute. In 1835 Pyne moved to London, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy, British Institution and New Watercolour Society over two decades. In his early period he painted views and scenery around Bristol but after 1835 he travelled to Italy and elsewhere on the Continent, gathering material to work up into finished pictures. Pyne was an admirer and imitator of Turner; his dramatic effects and use of pale yellow tones reflecting Turner’s influence. Today, his records of works produced from 1840 to 1868 are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Bookplate of William Park