Eccentric Excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales : interspersed with curious anecdotes ; embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints.

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Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic & Illustrative Prints. In quarto half calf over marbled boards, corners & edges worn. Re-spined, old laid down, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to half of a red calf label. Internally, frontis, [3], (iv) only, [1], (ii-v), 6-217 pp, [1] pl list, frontis 100 pls (B&W) on 99 leaves (includes 3 folding), plates dated 1796/1797, text leaves watermarked W Balston 1812 or 13, 2 professional small marginal paper repairs to 2 pls, some light offsetting & edge browning, occasional spot, evidence of removed bookplate to fpd, but a very good copy. (274*212 mm). (Lowndes VII, 2989; Rosenbach 207 (citing first edition of 1796-8). Woodward came to London from Derbyshire and immediately developed his artistic talents and became a popular and prolific designer of popular social caricatures much in the style of Bunbury. Generally his humour was course and extravagant as befitted a person who led a dissipated and drunken life but his work shows a wealth of imagination and insight into character, this was his first publication.