SIX VIEWS OF THE SCENERY OF NESSCLIFF ( Nesscliffe Shropshire ) These Views are intended to illustrate the Scenery of Nesscliff, in the County of Salop, Where The Earl of Bradford, being an Honorary Member of The Society of Ancient British Bowmen gave a Splendid Bow Archery meeting on the 8th August 1823, Drawn by Thomas Mann Baynes 1824

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Published by C. Hullmandel in 1824 this is a very rare original surviving example of this collection of six lithographic plates illustrating scenery at the Shropshire village of Nescliffe, housed in the original paper covers, a large elephant folio size measuring 17 inches by 13 inches approx., published in 1824 the six lithographs comprise a view of The Hill From the Road, A view of The Breidden Hills seen from the summit of Nescliffe Hill, A view in the wood at Nescliffe, with Three Rustic Buildings The Archery Ground at Nescliffe The Dinner Tents at the Archery Meeting which were seated about 250 persons Kynaston?s Cave, formerly inhabited by the Celebrated Outlaw, Humphry Knyaston there is an inscription on the cover showing that a Richard Halton of Knockin gave the folio to a Edward Griffiths of Weston in 1895, the folder and plates have some very obvious signs of wear and age, the covers are worn at edges and marked, internally four of the plates have suffered from noticeable damp marking to the lower left corners resulting in damage and loss to the paper leaving the corners in a brittle state, this does not affect the printed areas, also noticeable edge wear with some short edge tears, marking and darkening, one plate pictured has some burn marks to rear to top edge, which is only just noticeable along the top edge of the printed side all the pages are pictured so content and condition can be seen please study the pictures carefully as they also form part of the description. SHOWING SOME VERY OBVIOUS SIGNS OF WEAR AND AGE BUT REMAINS AN ACCEPTABLE EXAMPLE OF THIS EXTREMELY SCARCE WORK RARE IN ANY CONDITION. N° de ref. del artículo 002700

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