A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]

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VG, 1st ed, 1778, 27 pls. In contemporary brown calf covers, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Modern, lighter calf spine, gilt titles, blind tooling. Internally, engraved tp, [1], (ii-vi), [2], [1], 2-455 pp, [1] errata, [8] index, [2] adverts, 27 pls (of 27 including eng tp), new marbled endpapers, relaid bookplate of Sir Joseph Mowbey to new eps, some light offsetting. Pennants tour in Wales actually took place in 1773, MDCLXX was corrected by hand to MDCLXXIII on most copies, usual pagination errors but complete. A nice copy, clean & tight with the absolute minimum amount of foxing. (ESTC T133752. Allibone 1553). (Folio, 183*230 cms). This publication was followed by a printing in Dublin in 1779, and then a Journey to Snowdon Part 1 in 1781, then part 2 in 1783 which combined into 2 volumes 3 parts in 1784! After the success of his earlier Tour of Scotland, Pennant undertook several other tours: of northern England in 1773, of Northamptonshire and of the Isle of Man in 1774, of Warwickshire in 1776, of Kent in 1776, and of Cornwall in 1787. Several tours throughout Wales in the early 1770s, where his Welsh-speaking friend and companion, the Revd John Lloyd of Caerwys, performed the same function as Stuart had in Gaelic Scotland, were brought together as Tours in Wales in three volumes (1778-83). See ODNB.