| General Notes | Listed for some time on Ebay at £275 buy-it-now-or-best offer
Meanwhile on ABE (Andrew Cox, Shropshire) at £495
I offered £210 (£5 per plate) and offer was quickly accepted.
1823 Picturesque Scenery of HASTINGS and its Vicinity SUSSEX 42 Engravings VIEWS
Twenty six Views of Picturesque Scenery of Hastings and its Vicinity, at Hastings in 1823
( A Rare Variant bound up issue with Forty-Two Views Hastings & Sussex )
George Rowe
Hastings
G. Rowe & G Wooll, at his Repository of Arts, High Street, Hastings
This is an undated quarter leather bound landscape Folio sized volume of Forty Two Fine Lithographic Engravings of Sussex Scenery by George Rowe, titled in old ink to upper board “Views of Hastings”, Drawn from Nature on Stone by G Rowe, and printed by P. Simonau , published by G. Rowe & G Wooll, at his Repository of Arts, High Street, Hastings, George Rowe (1796 – 2 September 1864) was a Cheltenham printmaker, lithographer and business man who spent some time in Australia to prospect for gold after experiencing business difficulties in Cheltenham. He was born at Exeter in 1796 and was baptised on 8 July 1796 at St Sidwell's Parish Church, Exeter, son of George and Elizabeth Rowe. He initially worked as a drawing master, being first recorded as such at Hastings in 1823. He produced his first known topographical prints, Twenty-six Views of Picturesque Scenery of Hastings and its Vicinity, at Hastings in 1823, this book seems to be a variant volume containing Forty two Prints rather that the twenty-four of the more well known work, the volume has no printed title page or text, just a bound collection of engravings, the style of the leather binding would suggest it was bound in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, the covers are rubbed and worn with wear to the leather at corners and spine ends, else binding is in good solid condition, internally some creasing to endpapers, there are clean tears with no loss to the blank margins of three of the engravings, just touching the corner of one plate, some handling marks and occasional foxing spot to the margins, the actual plates are generally nice and clean, A Rare variant of Rowe’s “Twenty-six Views of Picturesque Scenery of Hastings and its Vicinity, at Hastings in 1823” this volume containing Forty-Two Views |