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Anon. Poetical Sketches. Scarborough in 1813. Illustrated by twenty-one plates of humorous subjects coloured by hand from original designs made upoon the spot by J. Green and etched by T.Rowlandson. Frank Fawcett, Driffueld, 1893. Limited Edition. No. 24 of 260 copies. Facsimile. Original, 1813. Good cond. Green cloth covers clean but a little frayed at the edges. Title sticker pasted on spine, marked and torn. Interior clean and bright with a little spotting mostly on the outer pages. Pages uncut. 21 plates in colour. Frontispiece plate is tissue protected. Publisher's Preface. 215 pp. The chief interest in the volume here reproduced as a facsimile in a Limited Edition. are that the coloured plates, but not the originals, were done by Thomas Rowlandson and bear a resmblance to the more famous set of Doctor Syntax. There is a 15 page Introduction giving an account of Scarborough, then a fashionable bathing place. This is followed by a series of poems extolling its beauties with titles
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