A Tour from Downing to Alston-Moor WITH Alston-Moor to Harrowgate to Brimham Crags (2 Vol in 1) PENNANT Thomas 1726-1798 Publisher: Edward Harding Publish Year: 1801 Publish Place: London, No 98, Pall-Mall. Illustrator: MACHELL R [Reginald] Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 004342 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: First Edition Inscription: Unknown £250 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information 2 vols bound as 1, 1801 & 1804, 1st eds, 36 pls, lge paper, VG. In a contemporary full calf with attractive gilt edge tooling, edges and corners a little bumped and worn. Spine, faded slightly, raised bands, attractive gilt tooling, gilt titles. [3], (vi-viii), [1], 2-195 pp, [1] advert, 27 pls, lacks half title, printed at th Oriental Press by Wilson & Co, Wild-Court, Lincoln's Inn Filelds, leafs watermarked 1800. BOUND With, A Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate, and Brimham Crags, printed by C Mercier for John Scott, London, 1804, VG, [8],[1], 2-130 pp, 9 pls, leafs watermarked 1801 & 02. Marbled endpapers and text block edges, bookplate of WWG Wynne to fpd, ffep has Bodysgallen 1904 in old ink, possibly indicating being bought at auction there, text block edges marbled, small calf loss to upper board base. A very good copy with a nice local bookplate! (Lowndes 1824. Allibone 1554) 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 and also several tours throughout Wales in the early 1770s.
