Itinerarium Curiosum: Or, an Account of the Antiquitys and Remarkable Curiositys in Nature or Art, Observed in Travels through Great Britain STUKELEY William 1687-1765 Publisher: Messrs. Baker and Leigh Publish Year: 1776 Publish Place: London: York-Street, Covent-Garden. Illustrator: STUKELEY William Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 007759 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: Second Edition Inscription: Unknown £1,875 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information VG, complete with all plates, 2 vols bound as 1, in half calf over brown cloth, a few marks, some blind tooling. Re-spined, old laid down, raised bands, gilt tooling, & titles, tips repaired. Internally, V1, 1776, 2 frontispieces, [7], (viii-x), [1], 2-205 pp, [1], [2] pllist, [4] index, 153 pls. V2, 1776, [4], [1], 2-177pp, [1], [10], [2] index, 55 pls. Marbled endpapers, small oval stamp of King's Inn lib. Dublin to verso of V1 2 others, t.e.g., many of the plates are double page & folding. (345*216 mm). (ESTC T145546. Allibone 2296. Graesse p515). The 1st edition was published in 1724 (with 101 pls), this the 2nd in 1776 (with 205 pls), and a 3rd edition (a facsimile of this) was published in 1815. The BAL catalogue cites Lowndes V, p. 2541, which notes of the 1815 facsimile edition "The paper was made expressly for it, and is so perfect an imitation of the original that an unpracticed eye could not discern the difference." No mention of a facsimile version at any auction record!
