George IV’s Visit to Scotland with folding panoramic plates, contemporary account of 1822.

A Historical Account of His Majesty’s Visit to Scotland. 3rd Edition. [Robert Mudie]. 1822  Oliver & Boyd [Edinburgh] 8vo.

4 folding panoramic plates and 1 very large folding plan of the banquet, 338pp. Contemporary quarter calf with marbl ed paper covered boards, spine leather very degraded with labels missing and upper board alost detached, the text block tight and very clean but the folding plates with some foxing and spotting, the final folding plate of the banquet overhanging the text block a little with the top edge curled and a little loss at the centre of the folds. This copy of the 3rd edition of the same date as the 1st has the large armorial bookplate of Sir Robert T Tempest, Bart., Tong Hall, Co, York to the front pastedown. apr10/1

Sir Robert F Tempest [1837-1901].