Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Title:
The journey from Chester to London.
Alternate Title(s):
Binder's title: Pennant's works. Chester to London XVI CtY-LW
Published / Created:
London : Printed for B. White, Fleet Street, MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 452, [6] pages, 22 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA620 P41 1782+ Copy 1 Oversize

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA620 P41 1782+ Copy 2 Oversize

Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:582749
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1978 1146: Armorial bookplate and goldstamp on binding of C. O'Callaghan.

British Art Center has 2 copies.

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is in 4 vols. (34 cm.) and is extra-illustrated with over 470 drawings, prints and maps. It includes over 160 contemporary watercolors, of which 118 are by John Ingleby, 28 by Mercatti, 2 by Moses Griffiths, 11 by Henry George Oldfield, 1 by John Carter, and a portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein by an unknown artist; over 280 engravings, aquatints, etchings, and mezzotints of views, historical and literary portraits, etc., after Van Dyck, Reynolds, Kneller, Kauffmann, etc. Also bound in at end is a copy of: An actual survey of the great postroads from London to Chester, Park-Gate and Holy-Head / by Peter Bell. London, 1779.

BAC: British Art Center copy 1 compiled by the antiquary Trench Chiswell.

Engraved title page, with vignette.

Advertisement signed: Thomas Pennant.

Plates engraved by Peter Mazell, Daniel Lerpinière, James Fittler, Moses Griffith, James Caldwell, Sparrow and James Basire; after Moses Griffith and John Carter.

With an index.

English short title catalogue, T160571

Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 547
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Great Britain -- Description and travel. | Chiswell, Trench, 1735–1797 -- Provenance. | O'Callaghan, Cornelius -- Bookplate. | Cromer, Earl of -- Bookplate. | Darby, Francis -- Bookplate. | Marx, Hermann, -1947 -- Bookplate. | Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Bookplate. | Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Ms. notes. | Ffoulkes, Sidney Wynne, Mrs. -- Ownership. | Pennsylvania. University -- Bookplate. | White, B. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Binders' stamps (Binding) | Mezzotints -- 1782. | Aquatints -- 1782. | Engravings -- 1782. | Etchings -- 1782. | Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
Contributors:
Maxell, Peter, engraver. | Lerpinière, Daniel, 1745–1785, engraver. | Fittler, James, 1758–1835, engraver. | Griffith, Moses, 1747–1819, engraver. | Caldwall, James, 1739–1819, engraver. | Deane, Barbara Julian, engraver. | Basire, James, 1730–1802, engraver. | Carter, John, 1748–1817, illustrator. | White, Benjamin, approximately 1724–1794, publisher. | Clarke, J. (John), active 1839–1859, binder.