Thomas ALLOM

Edition superbly illustrated with a portrait, 2 engraved titles and 118 plates and a map. The portrait of Robert Burns as frontispiece to the first volume is most often missing.
Publisher's binding in full red grained cloth. Smooth spine richly decorated with a large special panel titled Caledonia Illustrated with the Scottish lion at head and foot. Gilt edges. Headcaps sunken. 2 tears along the upper joint of volume I, one on the upper joint of volume II. Small dark stain on the upper board of volume I.
Magnificent illustration work by William Bartlett and Thomas Allom which leads the reader through romantic and picturesque Scotland.

First edition of the French translation by Alexandre Sosson.
Publisher's binding, smooth navy blue shagreen spine decorated with gilt and decorated cartouches, sky blue watered silk boards marginally discolored and decorated at corners with romantic arabesques stamped in blind, discoloration stains on front board, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, edges gilt.
Work illustrated with its 73 views after drawings by Thomas Allom.
Some light foxing.

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First edition, illustrated with 148 steel-engraved plates, including 96 in the first three volumes, by Thomas Allom; the fourth volume comprises 52 plates including 36 by Eugène Lami and 16 by Allom.
Full midnight blue glazed calf. Flat spine with false raised bands decorated with various roulettes and fillets with some compartments in morocco. Covers decorated with rich Romantic frieze and angular blind stamps. Red morocco title-label. Marbled edges. Scratches to covers. Headcaps and joints lightly rubbed. Superb English binding.
Volume IV, which is often lacking, is the translation of Un été à Paris, by Jules Janin. Through its illustrations, one finds a Balzacian Paris. It...