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[Hand-Colored] [Original Cloth] Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution Embellished with Seventeen Coloured Engravings by T. Rowlandson, Esq
de [COMBE, William, 1741-1823]; Thomas Rowlandson (Illustrates)
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London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1821. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition in book format of this lively look at life and travel on the eve of the French Revolution. Royal 8vo (247 x 155mm): [2],[ii],291,[5]pp, with 18 hand-coloured aquatints (including frontispiece) drawn by Rowlandson (1757-1827). Original cinnamon cloth, covers stamped in blind with borders and large central device, flat spine in five compartments decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, pale yellow end papers, fore-edge untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket to front paste-down of R. R. Bellamy, Bridge Street, Burton on Trent. Light offsetting from plates, leading edges of front end sheets stained, else fresh and bright, a wide-margined copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Abbey (Travel) 89. Tooley 415 ("The advertisements at end are usually missing," but are present in our copy). Prideaux, p. 350. A translation by Combe of the best known work of the German satirist August Moritz von Thummel (1738-1817), published as Reise in Die Mittaglichen Provinzen Von Frankreich Im Jahr 1785 Bis 1786. Combe's translation originally appeared in parts, in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, between 1817 and 1820 (see Abbey, Life, p. 185) with seventeen plates. The eighteenth plate, added for this edition, is No. 15, "Mistakes at Cavaillon." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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- Título
- [Hand-Colored] [Original Cloth] Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution Embellished with Seventeen Coloured Engravings by T. Rowlandson, Esq
- Autor
- [COMBE, William, 1741-1823]; Thomas Rowlandson (Illustrates)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Decorative Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1821
- Catálogos del vendedor
- HAND-PRESS PERIOD; XIX CENTURY;
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