<p><b> A TOUR THROUGH THE LOW COUNTRIES</b></p><p><b>LOW COUNTRIES. </b><i>Billets in Low Countries 1814 to 1817. In a Series of Letters Embellished with Colored Plates. </i>8vo full gilt bordered polished brown morcco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe inner gilt dentelles marbled end papers pp. 228 2 ads 4 colored plates including frontispiece t.e.g uncut. London: Printed for J. J. Stockdale 1818.</p><p>First Edition. The unsigned colored aquatints are attributed to George Cruikshank although three of them in Cohn's copy were autographed by him as "Not by me GCk." They are possibly by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. The fourth is possibly his. An account of an interesting tour around the Low Countries at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The color plates are of a Dutch peasant a shrimp-catcher in swimming gear a flying bride and a Dutch minister exhorting his parishioners from his pulpit. The leaf of ads is misbound at the end instead of as pp. 11-12. Minor offsetting from the plates still a fine copy scarce on the market. <b>OCLC</b>locates 10 copies in this country NYPL; Stanford: UC-Irvine; Yale; Indiana; Boston Athenaeum; Harvard; Princeton; Rice; U. Texas four in Holland one in Belgium one in Ireland Nat. Lib. and only one in the UK Cambridge. Not in <b>COPAC. Cohn </b>73. </p> Printed for J. J. Stockdale hardcover
London: W. Meadows et al 1760. Leatherbound. Good . Pages 2879-3598. 36 cm. Leather. Front board coming loose edges and corners worn. Bookplate and signature on front pastedown free endpapers some spotting and small tears. <br/><br/>"From the earliest Ages down to the present Times; Collected from the best Authorities both Printed and Manuscript And digested in the Manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary." Names from Latimer to Savile. W. Meadows et al hardcover
London: Religious Tract Soc. 1860. Hardcover. Good. . Prize binding in full leather with gilt decoration cover shows minor rubbing to the extremities fading on the spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Rubbed front pastedown from removed bookplate. Pages are lightly tanned with a few minor marks/annotation in the margins. London: Religious Tract Soc. hardcover
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