272 - Morris, FO A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. 6 (of 7) vols. London, Mackenzie, circa 1880. With 6 lithographed title pages with vignettes and 240 chromolithographed plates. 4to. Richly gilt, black and blind-tooled original cloth bindings with gilt edges (bumped, one spine joint cracked).

Morris, FO A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. 6 (of 7) vols. London, Mackenzie, circa 1880. With 6 lithographed title pages with vignettes and 240 chromolithographed plates. 4to. Richly gilt, black and blind-tooled original cloth bindings with gilt edges (bumped, one spine joint cracked). Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 104.- Second six-volume edition; in the first edition, the addition of 'Ireland' was still omitted from the title.- Last joint work of F.O. Morris and the printer Benjamin Fawcett, who had previously written 'A History of British Birds'.- The decorative plates show the most beautiful castles, manor houses, and ancestral homes of Ireland and Great Britain.- Inner hinges somewhat brittle and partly reinforced with tape, a few light foxed leaves, first leaves of Volume IV slightly damp-edged, one plate soiled at the edge and with small tears.