First edition. Large folio. Comprising lithographic frontispiece and vignette on title page, dedication page with list of plates on verso and 25 other sepia lithographic plates. Minor damp-staining to bottom third of every leaf. Later quarter morocco over original maroon cloth boards; boards slightly rubbed and stained, corners bumped. London, Hodgson Boys and Graves, 1835.
Ruskin considered Lewis an under-rated genius and declared him “the painter of greatest power next to Turner, in the English school”. Abbey Travel, 148..
