COOKE, George (1781-1834). Scenery of China, Turkey, etc. A Series of Views of the most remarkable localities, celebrated for picturesque beauty or historical and other associations. [London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, plates dated 1820]. Oblong 4° (211 x 270mm). Title, list of plates and 25 engraved plates by Cooke. (Light marginal browning, a few lower margins lightly waterstained, stitching weak, one plate detached.) Contemporary cloth-backed printed limp wrappers (lightly soiled, extremities with a few small chips).

COOKE, George (1781-1834). Scenery of China, Turkey, etc. A Series of Views of the most remarkable localities, celebrated for picturesque beauty or historical and other associations. [London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, plates dated 1820]. Oblong 4° (211 x 270mm). Title, list of plates and 25 engraved plates by Cooke. (Light marginal browning, a few lower margins lightly waterstained, stitching weak, one plate detached.) Contemporary cloth-backed printed limp wrappers (lightly soiled, extremities with a few small chips).

RARE AND ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION OF PLATES. No record on ABPC or Americana Exchange. Worldcat lists 2 copies only, one in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Canada and one at the University of Edinburgh. Cooke, a pupil of Basire, produced a number of plates for John Pinkerton’s General Collection of Voyages and Travels (1808-14), and it seems probable that they could be purchased separately from the texts which they were designed for.