Journal of sentimental travels in the southern provinces of France, shortly before the Revolution; / embellished with seventeen coloured engravings, from designs by T. Rowlandson, Esq.
Moritz August von Thümmel (1738-1817)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100826
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], ii, 291, [5] p., [18] leaves of plates ; 8vo. Imperfect: lacks 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso; pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "17 coloured plates" and "£25" (erased). Pencil bookseller's code "ds/-/-" and pencil number "10454" on rear free endpaper. Pencil note (illegible) on rear pastedown and date "18.4.46". Pencil ticks and marks against list of plates on 'Directions to the binder for placing the plates' (p. [292]). Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full orange cloth; blind-stamped panel design on boards; recessed cords; spine gilt, lettered direct: 'Sentimental travels in France / Plates by Rowlandson'; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Moritz August von Thümmel (1738-1817) , author William Combe (1742-1823)., translator Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827), illustrator