A Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate, and Brimham Crags. PENNANT Thomas 1726-1798. [Pennant David - editor] 1763-1841 Publisher: John SCott Publish Year: 1804 Publish Place: London: No. 447, Strand. Illustrator: GRIFFITH Moses 1747-1819 Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 006667 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: Unknown Inscription: Unknown £200 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information VG, 1st ed, 1804, 9 pls (of 9). In worn marbled boards. Re-spine, to style, gilt tooling & titles, new tips. Internally, [8], [1], 2-120 pp, 9 pls (of 9), light water stain to top outer corner of each plate, not affecting image, text block edges yellowed, leaves watermarked Neckinger Milll 1801 & 1800, plates dated 1801/3/4, small bookbinder label to epf. Left in manuscript ready for publication when Pennant died and was brought on by his son David Pennant. (229*293 mm). (The Library 1938). Pennant's travels and natural history are distinguished by his personal energy, a keen observational sense, and by methodological organization and attention to facts. In such ways, and in his friendship and widespread correspondence with others of like interests throughout Britain and Europe, he may be said to exemplify those gentleman scholars of nature in the later eighteenth century whose interests in natural knowledge aimed at national improvement through intellectual enquiry. See ODNB.
