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Creator:
Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769–1822
Title(s):
A tour through the south of England, Wales, and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 1791.
Published/Created:
London: : Printed at the Minerva Press, Leadenhall-Street, for R. Edwards, No. 142, New Bond-Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
xxx, [2], 403, [1] pages, [12] leaves of plates : engravings ; 22 cm (8vo)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA620 C62 1793
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 3
BEIR Ede 791C: Autograph of Charles M. Tainton, Colechester, Connecticut, Feb. 12 1868.
Written by Edward Daniel Clarke. See Halkett.
Three of the plates are signed by H. Spence.
One of two impressions; has only press figure 3; p. 118-119 have text on the Cornish dialect; Section the third begins on p. 132.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b-d⁴ B-3E⁴ 3F².
Pages [xxxi]-[xxxii] and p. [1] at end are blank.
Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language (3rd ed.), IV:2613
English short title catalogue, T145932
BAC DA620 C62 1793: The Abbey copy. Plates are not colored. Bound in contemporary quarter calf and brown boards. Bookplate: Elizabeth Pitcairn.
Subject Terms:
Caernarfon Castle (Caernarfon, Wales)
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Ireland -- Antiquities.
Ireland -- Description and travel.
Pitcairn, Elizabeth -- Bookplate.
Stonehenge (England)
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1793.
Contributors:
Edwards, R., publisher.
Spence, H., illustrator.
Minerva Press, printer.
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  • Plates (titles from captions): A view from the inside of the circles looking east
  • Plan of Stone-henge on Salisbury Plain
  • Inward view looking westward
  • An exterior view south west
  • Inward view looking west nore west
  • An outside view looking to the north east
  • Pont-pren in Coomb Ryddol
  • The Devil's Bridge near the great Fall of the Monach
  • [Mountain scene]
  • [Mountains and river]
  • Carnarvon Castle towards the Menai, taken from the Isle of Anglesea
  • Part of the inside of Carnarvon Castle.

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