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HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature on Stone by D.O. Hill, 6 parts (Complete), FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, Perth, Thomas Hill, 1821[-1823] image 1
HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature on Stone by D.O. Hill, 6 parts (Complete), FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, Perth, Thomas Hill, 1821[-1823] image 2
HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature on Stone by D.O. Hill, 6 parts (Complete), FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, Perth, Thomas Hill, 1821[-1823] image 3
HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature on Stone by D.O. Hill, 6 parts (Complete), FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, Perth, Thomas Hill, 1821[-1823] image 4
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HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS)
Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature on Stone by D.O. Hill, 6 parts (Complete), FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, Perth, Thomas Hill, 1821[-1823]

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HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS)

Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature on Stone by D.O. Hill, 6 parts (Complete), FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, 30 lithographed plates printed by J. Robertson and C. Hullmandel after Hill, publisher's advertisement bound in final part, stitched as issued publisher's pictorial lithographed wrappers (with 3 variant designs), held in cloth solander box [Abbey Scenery 509], oblong folio (310 x 580mm.), Perth, Thomas Hill, 1821[-1823]

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RARE COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF "THE EARLIEST SERIES OF VIEWS TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED IN SCOTLAND BY THE LITHOGRAPHIC PROCESS" (David H.J. Schenck, Directory of the Lithographic Printers of Scotland 1820-1870 1999, p.98).

Drawn whilst only a teenager, David Octavius Hill's Sketches was issued in parts between 1821-23 by his father, Thomas Hill. Hill is now most celebrated for the pioneering calotype photography he produced with Robert Adamson in the 1840s.

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