A Tour in Wales.

[PENNANT Thomas] 1726-1798

Verlag: Benjamin White, London. Horace's Head, in Fleet Street., 1784

Beschreibung

Vol 1 only (of 2), 2nd ed, 1784, 2 vignettes, 26 pls (of 26), VG. In modern, to style, half calf over green marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt titles to red morocco label, gilt tooling. Internally, title page with vignette, [10], [1], 2-488 pp, [1], 186-197 corrections, [1], [8] index, 26 pls (includes 10 folding), 2 vignettes, new endpapers, occasional marginal pencil note, faint edge browning & offsetting. (182*236 mm). (ESTC T213985. Lowndes 1823. Anderson 335. LibWalia 3928 & 32) Pennant, naturalist, traveller, and writer, whose accounts which he wrote of his journeys in Scotland, to London, and especially in North Wales, are among his best literary works. The first volume of his Tours in Wales was published in 1778, the second in 1781 (the first part under the title A Journey in Snowdonia ). An edition in three volumes, edited by (Sir) John Rhys, was published in 1883. See NLW WBO. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006671

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Tour in Wales.

Verlag: Benjamin White, London. Horace's Head, in Fleet Street.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1784

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: GRIFFITH Moses 1747-1819

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Second Edition