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6 vols. Edited by Rev. F. O. Morris. Illustrated with 233 color wood-engraved plates after paintings by Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon; plus each volume with an added pictorial title page with a color wood-engraved vignette. 10¾x8¼, original decorative terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt and black, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt.

An extensive pictorial series of color woodcut images of the distinguished and honored homes and buildings of Great Britain and Ireland. According to Gordon Ray "Fawcett's most interesting works were the result of his collaboration over many years with the watercolor painter...Lydon. The 'Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen' is the most ambitious of these joint ventures. The book's publishing history is complicated. It is described as having been issued in parts between...1864 and 1880..." - Ray “The Illustrators and the Book in England” 104.