Britain.- Kearsly (George, publisher) The Copper Plate Magazine; or.Monthly Treasure, for the Admirers of the Imitative Arts, first edition, engraved vignette title and 124 plates by Sandby, Watts & others only (lacking plate of Apollo & Marsyas, supplied in good facsimile), each with leaf of descriptive text (that to portrait of Shakespeare bound wrong way round), 2 leaves torn and crudely repaired with sticky tape, some browning or soiling to text but plates clean and bright, modern half calf, spine gilt, 4to, G.Kearsly, 1778.*** Rare work issued in parts from 1774-78 comprising 42 portraits of famous English & Frenchmen, 41 (of 42) historical, classical and mythological scenes, and 43 views of landscapes, country houses and buildings, mostly after Paul Sandby.Library Hub records only 5 copies (BL, Oxford, Nat. Lib. Wales,Univ. of Wales Trinity Saint David, and V & A).