A picturesque tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: : with illustrations of the scenes of remarkable events, and of popular traditions. / By Baron J. J. von Gerning. Embellished with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from the drawings of M. Schuetz; and accompanied by a map. Translated from the German by John Black.
Johann Isaac Gerning (1767-1837)
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069305
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, [2], 178 p., 25 leaves of plates : col. ill., map ; fol. Large, thick-paper copy (one of 50 printed). Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "A Large and Thick Paper Copy / Rare". Pencil note on rear free endpaper: "CH WG 23.5.38". Pencil check marks against list of plates. Ephemera: loosely inserted: book dealer’s typed catalogue description, with price cut out. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century half green morocco; green cloth sides; gilt tooled boards and spine; sewn onto six raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Picturesque tour along the Rhine' and 'Gerning'; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Johann Isaac Gerning (1767-1837), author Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) , publisher John Black (1783-1855), translator Schütz, Christian Georg, original artist