Green 1814

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	Set of prints, Sixty Small Prints, with A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. The descriptive text was printed by John Tyler, Rathbone Place, London; the prints were drawn, engraved and printed by William Green. In this volume the prints are tinted, perhaps with several washes of indian ink? Looking at plate 2, as an example, notice the pencil lines drawn on the left and right, and across the top to outline the frame of the image and to guide the colourist. The volume has the prints inserted in relevant positions within the 16 pages of letterpress. For example, at the start, page describing plates 1 and 2, is followed by plate 1 then plate2, then come plates 5, 4, and 3, then page 5 which describes those plates; and so on. The text was originally designed to be a short guide to the area, but this idea was abandoned. The title page belongs to the descriptive text not to the set of prints itself. The prints are recorded separately.
	source type:-	Green 1814
	inscription:-	printed title page A Description / OF / A SERIES OF SIXTY SMALL PRINTS, / ETCHED BY / WILLIAM GREEN, OF AMBLESIDE, / FROM DRAWINGS MADE BY HIMSELF. // LONDON / PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY JOHN TYLER, RATHBONE PLACE; / AND PUBLISHED BY / WILLIAM GREEN, AMBLESIDE. / 1814.
	inscription:-	colophon: printed text p.34 J. Tyler, Printer, Rathbone Place
	wxh:-	25x19cm

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