isle of Wight
Subtitle: in a series of views printed in oil colours.
Contributors: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Isle of Wight (England) -- Pictorial works.; Isle of Wight (England) -- Guidebooks.
Genres: Guidebooks.
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

T.p. printed within black rule border.

All plates are unsigned and without imprint.  All are with title captions.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [3-6] at end with t.p.: "List of Views and Guide-Books. Each place is illustrated by a series of beautifully printed views, from photographs or original sketches taken expressly for this series.".

Chromolithographed plates include areas engraved on a key block and transfered to stone.  For more on this process, see Wakeman, Geoffrey and Gavin D. R. Bridson.  A guide to nineteenth century colour printers, p. 83.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges. Upper cover with rectangular paper onlay chromolithographed with illustration replicated from a plate within the text.