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[004692] Moses, H. Picturesque Views of Ramsgate, with Descriptions: By H. Moses. To Which is Prefixed an Historical Account of Ramsgate. London: H. Moses, 1817. First Edition? 4to. Hardback. Good. [3], 4-8pp, frontispiece and twenty-three etched plates, these each with a leaf of letterpress

Modern quarter cloth and boards, piece of an original wrapper (though dated 1821) cut out and laid down to upper cover, unattractive modern title label to spine

Externally very good. Internally some light browning to edges, occasional light foxing and very light soiling, but generally fairly bright and clean

Seemingly a large paper copy, here the frontispiece is not a folding plan, but an engraving of A Fishing Boat Coming Into Ramsgate Harbour, dated 1817 and complete on one sheet; the remaining etchings have the day and month in the imprint, but not the year, perhaps the large paper copy was only issued in 1821?

Moses, Henry (1781/2-1870), printmaker … “his Picturesque Views of Ramsgate (1817) includes busily populated images of ships at harbour with foreground flâneurs and distant houses” (ODNB), and see Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820, pages 632-633

Bennett, Kent Bibliography, page 305; Upcott *631-*632