| General Notes | Skelton's
Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire
From Original Drawings By F. Mackenzie
1823
Folio: Half Green Morocco 41.3cm x 33.4cm
Folio, pp.[6] iv, 10; 8; 4; 12; 10; 22; 10; 10; 4; 2; 2; 8; 10; 26 [4]. With separate pagination for each Hundred region.
Engraved Frontispiece, Engraved title, Steel Engraved Map to Prelims, and a further 49 Steel Engraved plates pasted to thick heavy stock paper. (Collates Complete)
With a further 72 Engraved Vignettes to text
Bound in a Large/heavy contemporary half green Morocco binding, with gilt borders, four raised bands to spine, full marbled edges.
**Joseph John Skelton (1783–1871) was an English engraver.**
He was brother of William Skelton, and became an engraver specialising in topographical and antiquarian subjects. Before 1819 he went to live at Oxford. He left Oxford in 1830 for Edinburgh (after which he went to France), but had returned to London by 1851. A subscription was raised for him in Oxford in 1856 on account of poverty, and he was granted a place in the Charterhouse in 1859, where he died in 1871. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1825; his name disappears from its lists in 1844**
Author: SKELTON, Joseph (1783-1871), [MACKENZIE, F., illustrator
Publisher: J. Skelton Magdalen Bridge Oxford.
Edition: 1823
Attributes: Stunning topographical volume, bound in contemporary Morocco, with all highly detailed fine Steel Engraved plates.
Condition: Please see photographs as part of the condition report: Contemporary Morocco binding, extremities rubbed, scuffing to the edges, boards a little discoloured where it has been previously stored, The boards firmly attached, scuffing to the leathwe hinges near the head of the spin and the corner pieces. Bound with later headbands. All pages and plates present (meets collation). Bookplate to the front pastedown., the binding and text block remains firm. With spotting/foxing to the title and frontispiece. Further spotting and foxing to plates. Text pages clean with the occasional mark. Small purple library stamps to the verso of the plates.
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