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The Lakes of England. Illustrated with eighteen coloured etchings

TOPHAM, W. F. · 1869 · 19 pictures

A topographical picture book of the English Lake District by W. F. Topham, published in London in 1869 with eighteen hand-coloured etchings for tourists and armchair travellers. The plates are wide horizontal lake views in pale washes of green, buff and blue, each with a captioned baseline naming the peaks in the skyline, offering usable mountain silhouettes, still water reflections and small engraved place-name lettering.

British Library · HMNTS 10360.c.13. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain) · More from this library