Item #GRM0074 A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A. William Daniell.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.
A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.

A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land’s-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.

PRESENTATION COPY OF WILLIAM DANIELL

8 volumes. London: for the author by Longman and Thomas Davison, 1814 [–1825]. First edition.

Large quarto (13 13/16” x 10”, 351mm x 253mm):
Vol. I: 2 binder’s blanks, A4 B–EE4 FF2, 2 binder’s blanks [B–R $1 signed; S–FF $2 signed; –FF2]. 112 leaves, pp. i–iii iv–v [1] (blank) 1 2–215 [3] (blank, errata, blank). With 28 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. II: 2 binder’s blanks, B–FF4, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed; –B1]. 112 leaves, pp. 1–3 4–223 [1] (plate list). With 28 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. III: binder’s blank, A2 B4 C2 D4 E–F2 G4 H–I2 K–L4 M6 O–P2, binder’s blank [$half signed]. 42 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, 2pp. dedication) 1 2–80. With 42 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. IV: binder’s blank, A2 B4 C2 D–K4 L2 M–N4 O–P2,binder’s blank [$half signed]. 50 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, dedication, blank) 1 2–96. With 42 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. V: 2 binder’s blanks, A2 B–E4 F2, 2 binder’s blanks[$2 signed]. 20 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, dedication, blank) 1 2–36. With 42 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. VI: 2 binder’s blanks, A2 B–M4 N4(–N4), 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed]. 49 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, dedication, blank) 1 2–94. With 42 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. VII: binder’s blank, A2(–A2) B–M4 +N1, binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 46 leaves, pp. [2] (title, imprint) 1 2–90. With 42 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
Vol. VIII: binder’s blank, A2 B–H4 +K1, binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 46 leaves, pp. [4] (title, imprint, dedication, blank) 1 2–65 [1] (imprint). With 42 hand-colored aquatint plates on card.
With 308 hand-colored aquatint plates in toto.

Rebacked in brown morocco. Boards bound in half diced russia over orange marbled boards. On the spine, title and author gilt to second panel. All edges of the text-block marbled.

Corners bumped and boards rubbed. Lacking the engraved dedication and uncolored ‘Kemaes Head’ plate in vol. I. Graphite marginalia throughout. Plates toned with mild offsetting and sporadically foxed.  In volume I, plates loosening. Dampstain to the gutter of volume II, most prominent from the binder’s blank to D1. In volume IV, edge marbling bled into the margins, not affecting text nor plates. Bookplate of Joyce Carey to the front pastedown of volume I and armorial bookplate of [John] Stansfeld to the front pastedown of each volume. Ink manuscript note from William Daniell to an unidentified subscriber [perhaps Stanfield] pasted to the recto of the flyleaf and XXc catalog clippings tipped in at the rear binder’s blank of volume VIII.



In 1769, William Daniell was born to a bricklayer in Surrey. The trajectory of his life was dramatically altered when, at 10 years old, Daniell’s father died and he was sent to live with his uncle, the landscape artist Thomas Daniell. Throughout his youth, William accompanied his uncle on travels throughout Southeast Asia, working as his preparatory assistant. The duo would stay in India for eight years, working to document both the rapidly changing scenery born of the colonial regime and to artistically preserve the ruins, temples, and natural beauty of the subcontinent. When the Daniells returned to England in September of 1794 they set up shop in Fitzroy Square to publish the crème-de-la-crème of views from their travels. William reportedly worked from dawn to midnight perfecting his aquatinting techniques and the first livraison of Oriental Scenery made its debut in 1795. Of the Daniells’s work, Goswamy write, “they saw everything and painted virtually all that met their eyes. They travelled to places that few who had come from ‘home’ had ever been to before.”

Following years of commercial success, William Daniell undertook what was to be his greatest artistic work to date — A Voyage Round Great Britain. In service of the project being both visual and informative, Daniell hired Richard Ayton, a dramatist and copy writer, to execute the text. The voyage, starting from Land’s End and continuing by the North Coast of Cornwall, was made by land and sea (Daniell’s perhaps overly romantic original plan consisted only of traveling by ship). Ayton dropped out near Holyhead when the two men suffered creative differences and returned home to adapt comedies for the English Opera House. Ayton had a strong moral character and used the project’s text as an outlet to preach social reform, which he found increasingly necessary as the two men witnessed the profound poverty of the region. Daniell saw the political overtones as alienating to the clientele who would be purchasing the series (not a pittance at 60 pounds for the full set in 1825).  Due to the scuffle, the text becomes noticeably shorter beginning in volume three, when Daniell took on the role of author as well as artist. Daniell traveled in the more clement summer months, bringing only pencil, paper, and small camera obscura which allowed him to trace the outline of a scene and accurately capture the coast’s proportions. Through the winter he returned to his shop to transfer his illustrations to the plate. Popular lore of Daniell’s skill purports that he was capable of producing a plate in a single day. The final prints of A Voyage Round Great Britain were published on May 20th of 1825 and the series has since been hailed “the most important colour plate book on British topography” (Tooley). Miraculously, in 1962, 306 of the 308 copper plates were discovered after being lost for more than 100 years. They are presently under the stewardship of the Tate Museum.

John Stansfeld was born in Leeds in February of 1848. Stansfeld founded a steel stockholding firm selling iron bars, rivets, nuts, and bolts, but his personal interests varied widely and were thus reflected in his impressive antiquarian book collection. Stanfeld’s holdings included county histories and local topographies, heraldic and genealogical publications, fine specimens of the "Bulmer Press," publications of fine arts and costume, and numerous standard works in all classes of literature. Sotheby’s auctioned the complete collection in 1898.

Abbey Scenery 16; Tooley 177

Cataloged by G.R. Murdock

Item #GRM0074

Price: $28,250

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