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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Title(s):

The journey from Chester to London.

Published/Created:
London : Printed for B. White, Fleet Street, MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA620 P41 1782+ Copy 1 Oversize
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1978 1146: Armorial bookplate and goldstamp on binding of C. O'Callaghan.
British Art Center has 2 copies.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is in 4 vols. (34 cm.) and is extra-illustrated with over 470 drawings, prints and maps. It includes over 160 contemporary watercolors, of which 118 are by John Ingleby, 28 by Mercatti, 2 by Moses Griffiths, 11 by Henry George Oldfield, 1 by John Carter, and a portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein by an unknown artist; over 280 engravings, aquatints, etchings, and mezzotints of views, historical and literary portraits, etc., after Van Dyck, Reynolds, Kneller, Kauffmann, etc. Also bound in at end is a copy of: An actual survey of the great postroads from London to Chester, Park-Gate and Holy-Head / by Peter Bell. London, 1779.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 compiled by the antiquary Trench Chiswell.
Engraved title page, with vignette.
Advertisement signed: Thomas Pennant.
Plates engraved by Peter Mazell, Daniel Lerpinière, James Fittler, Moses Griffith, James Caldwell, Sparrow and James Basire; after Moses Griffith and John Carter.
With an index.
English short title catalogue, T160571
Subject Terms:
Chiswell, Trench, 1735-1797 -- Provenance.
Cromer, Earl of -- Bookplate.
Darby, Francis -- Bookplate.
Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Marx, Hermann, -1947 -- Bookplate.
O'Callaghan, Cornelius -- Bookplate.
White, B. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Binders' stamps (Binding)
Mezzotints -- 1782.
Aquatints -- 1782.
Engravings -- 1782.
Etchings -- 1782.
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
Contributors:
Maxell, Peter, engraver.
Lerpinière, Daniel, 1745-1785, engraver.
Fittler, James, 1758-1835, engraver.
Griffith, Moses, 1747-1819, engraver.
Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, engraver.
Deane, Barbara Julian, engraver.
Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver.
Carter, John, 1748-1817, ill.
White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794, publisher.
Clarke, J. (John), active 1839-1859, binder.
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