A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]

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1778, VG, 1st ed, 29 pls (including eng tp). In modern half calf, to style, over green marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spine, gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label. Internally, title with vignette, [2], [1] (ii-vi), [1] pl list, [1], [1], 2-455 pp, [1] errata, [8] index, [1], 186-197 correction, 26 pls (of 26, 11 folding), 2 additional plates (Port of John Lloyd & plan of Hawarden castle), engraved title page & 1 other vignette, new endpapers, ink signature to tp (Williams 1786) with possibly some marginal notes by him? also pencil notes by other, occasional spotting, offsetting, text block edges yellowed. Contains 1891 newpaper article on the recent archaeological discoveries at Chester. (186*239 mm). (ESTC T133752 for the 1st part. Allibone 1553). Pennants first tour in Wales actually took place in 1773, MDCLXX was corrected by hand to MDCLXXIII on a number of copies, including this one, usual pagination errors but complete. This is the first part of his North Wales tour that took in the counties of Flint and Denbighshire. 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!s! 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 for a full Bio.