Becker Richard Rev (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 285 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with mathematical notation and illustrations throughout. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly faded and scuffed in spots. Lightly bumped on the edges. VG+. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Part of the late-eighteenth-century development of the picturesque and antiquarian tourist literature of Wales. 2 Vols one, VG, 3rd, 1799 & 1799, 2nd ed, pls 3, map Illust 31, printers devices 25. In quarter cloth, blue boards, corners rubbed, some marks. Spine, no title, edges worn. Internally, half title, frontis, [7], (viii) only, [1], 2-238 pp, [2] adverts, 1 pl, map illust 15, printers devices 12. [2], half title, frontis, [7], (viii-x), [1], 2-365 pp, [1], [2] adverts, 2 pls, 16 illust maps, 13 devices. Paper watermarked 1798 & 1798, hinges strengthened, ink name to half title (Alexander W Bill), some offsetting & edge browning. (210*129 mm). (Allibone 2585. Lowndes 2844/5. Graesse 421). Titles are: A Walk Through Wales, in August 1797, 3rd edition, 1799 and A Second Walk through Wales in August and September 1798, 2nd edition, 1799. Warner, spent his vacation in August 1796 in Wales, walking from Bath to Caernarfon and back; he covered 36 miles on the first day and 462 miles in all, at an average of 26 miles a day. Naturally his tour included visits to antiquities, which he described in a series of letter. See ODNB for a full Bio. GIRTON. ALKEN. BECKER. HUTLEY. (illustrator).…