Author's illustrated edition
b/w illustrations from photographs throughout
rather than being a staged portrait authorized by Reynolds
leaves and clippings toned and somewhat brittle
The other painting depicts the first
Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters. Addressed by Way of Letter to a Friend. Water Author's illustrated editionLondon: Printed for Samuel Smith at the Prince's Arms, 1684 5. 6 5 8 x 4 1 8 inches. [18],112,[2, addendum],[11, ads],[1, blank]pp. Contemporary brown leather. Worn and scuffed; new free endpapers, pasted to inside covers; cloth tape repair to gutters of original endpapers; rough remnants of a prior owner's bookplate to rear paste down, with some spots where the paste down has been torn and the board is visible; early ownership inscription of Lady