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Published by Oliver D. Cooke, Hartford, 1804
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. FAE. Brown leather boards, worn at edges and corners with scuffing to surface, substantial chipping along spine surface. Top of ffep missing to 2" from top corner. PO name on inside front paste down, title page (2 places), facing page to title page, and back inside paste down. Light writing on back fep. Back inside hinge paper cracked along hinge. Pages toned, light foxing throughout. Book is tight and square.
Published by LondonPrinted for J. Johnson ., 1803
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
FIRST EDITION. 4to. (27 x 21.25 cm). pp.viii+261+[1, directions to the binder and errata]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards by R. Bailey & Co. of Wotton, spine with blind-stamped raised bands and gilt in compartments, grey-coated endpapers, marbled edges. 12 sepia tinted aquatint plates, including frontispiece. Joints rubbed, binding lightly scuffed, corners bruised, contents clean, generally a very good copy. Sir John Carr (1772 1832) was an English barrister and travel writer who penned several books including the current work, which was an immediate success. It was followed in 1805 by A Northern Summer: or, Travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia and Part of Germany In The Year 1804; in 1806 by The Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern and Western parts of that country in 1805, and in 1807 by A Tour through Holland, along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in 1806. Lord Byron, who met Carr in Cadiz, "refers to him in some suppressed stanzas of canto 1 of Childe Harolde as 'Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star'" (ODNB). Abbey speculates that the plates in The Stranger in France are by William Daniell. "Carr was knighted by the Duke of Bedford, Viceroy of Ireland, in 1806, the year of the publication of The Stranger in Ireland. This latter book drew down upon it Dubois's skit My Pocket Book, or Hints for a Ryghte Merrie and Conceited Tour. Byron pilloried Carr in a cancelled passage of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, and, it is said, begged, when he met Carr abroad, not to be put down on paper" (Abbey). (Abbey Travel, 82).
Published by 1805, 1805
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
hard cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. First Edition. Philadelphia:Samuel F. Bradford. 1805. (vi)+3.6pp+(2)pp.ads. Hardcover. Full leather binding with label on spine, worn at edges and seams, with top 1/2 inch of top of spine chipped and edge points worn to boards. Leather hinges cracked but holding. Internally, end pages age toned, with 2 previous owners bookplates to inside front board and a signature to 1st free endpage with some additional penciled notes. Otherwise some pages age-toned with some still quite bright, and a very occasional spot of foxing scattered throughout. With pagination error pages 137-152 with no loss of text and some margin notes penciled to bottom of page 263. .
Published by London, 1806
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First Edition. Folding aquatint frontispiece of Dublin. hand-coloured plate at p. 361 of 'Lakes of Killarney' and 15 other aquatints (5 folding) drawn by Carr (Complete). xiv. [ii], 530pp. 4to (10-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches). Abbey Scenery 455 Bound in modern tan morocco and marbled boards. Fine, paltes fresh Folding aquatint frontispiece of Dublin. hand-coloured plate at p. 361 of 'Lakes of Killarney' and 15 other aquatints (5 folding) drawn by Carr (Complete). xiv. [ii], 530pp. 4to (10-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches).