Britain.- Pyne (William Henry) The History of the Royal Residences, 3 vol., first edition, 100 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, one gathering in vol.2 lightly foxed, otherwise an excellent clean and bright copy, bookplate of Doris L. Benz, handsome red straight-grain morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., [Abbey, Scenery 396], 4to, 1819.

⁂ William Henry Pyne (1770-1843) was an artist and printmaker who commissioned the artists and engravers of these plates to show an exact record of the interiors of royal residences. The illustrations have been consulted by art historians, curators and archivists at the Royal Collection to research interior schemes and decorative fashions, even down to such details as the arrangements of hanging pictures.