Author: IRELAND, SAMUEL
Title: A Picturesque Tour Through Holland, Brabant, and Part of France Made in the Autumn of 1789
Description: London, Egerton, Whites, Robson &c. 1796, 2-Nd. - Enlarged. Half Calf. Roy. 8Vo. Ill.: Ireland, Samuel. Book, 2 Vol. XX-217 & IV-21 PP. Illustrated with 49 full page Aquatint plates. 2 small, oval aquatint plates at titles, The enlarged 2-Nd. Edition, with " An Entire New Set Of Copper-Plates In Aqua-Tinta From Drawings Made On The Spot" The Plate: "Delft Towards the Hague" though not listed at the plates-index is present, opp. pp.67. Printed on fine, strong paper. Vol.I : badly shaken, first quires loose/loosening, Vol 2, partly unopened , very tight and sound, top of spine damaged. All prints present as called for Most aquatints are views, in England (2), Belgium (4), France (8) and The Netherlands (27). The others depict costumes, a sworn midwife under a tree full of babies (Arbor Vitae), Rubens" chair and altar, and the National Assembly in Paris. See: Abbey 185 ; Cox I, p. 159 Lipperheide 951; Brunet III, 457. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Ireland, Samuelsamuel Ireland. Aquatinta, Topography. Holland. Illustrated.


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