A Tour in Wales. MDCCLXX [III]

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VG, 1778, 26pls complete. In contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, edges bumped. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label, edges worn. Internally, title with oval vignette, [2], [1] (ii-vi), [1] pl list, [1], [1], 2-455 pp, [1] errata, [8] index, [2] adverts, 26 pls (of 26, 11 folding), the frontispiece of Caergwrle Castle, text block edges speckled red, pencil ownership signature to fep (Bond, Creech Grange). (189*251 mm). 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. Illustrations by GRIFFITH Moses 1747-1819 Near Fine ESTC T133752 for the 1st part. Allibone 1553. [ref: 379] £250