A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, ... Compiled from papers and other materials of ... George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates.
Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson(1697 - 1762)
Category
Books
Date
1748
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3188468
Summary
Bibliographic description
[34], 417, [3] p. : ill., plates, maps (fold.) ; 4to. Imperfect: volume of plates only. Edition and date not known. Incomplete: includes plates 3,6,12,13,15,16,20,23,25-29,31,33,35,38,39,41,42. Provenance: endpaper inscribed in pencil: "Most of the plates taken out & framed (now at Shugborough) L 1910." [ie. Thomas Francis Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (1856-1918)]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; five raised bands; gold lettered red spine label: Anson Vol. II.
Makers and roles
Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson(1697 - 1762)