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Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, MDCCXXII. In two volumes. The second edition.
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WRIGHT, Edward (fl. 1764)
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, MDCCXXII. In two volumes. The second edition.
London (Place), printed for A. Millar,, 1764.
xvi [i.e. xiv], [2], 364, [5], 366--498, [2], 499--516, [70] p., 40, [1] pl. (3 fold.) : wdcut illus.; 26cm. (4°)
First published in 1730. Two volumes in one, separate register but continuously paginated. Page xiv misnumbered xvi. The Soane copy as described above has a blank leaf following the prelims (apparently leaf a4) and another preceding the vol. II title-leaf. The unpaginated leaf following p. 498 is R4 and contains a full-page woodcut on the verso (recto blank). The unnumbered folded plate is a table of 'The Order of the Statues & Busts, ... in ye. Great Duke's Gallery, at Florence'. ESTC t89053.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper John Soane.
Binding C18th tree calf, thick gilt-ruled spine, red morocco spine-label.
Reference Number 4303
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, MDCCXXII. In two volumes. The second edition.
London (Place), printed for A. Millar,, 1764.
xvi [i.e. xiv], [2], 364, [5], 366--498, [2], 499--516, [70] p., 40, [1] pl. (3 fold.) : wdcut illus.; 26cm. (4°)
First published in 1730. Two volumes in one, separate register but continuously paginated. Page xiv misnumbered xvi. The Soane copy as described above has a blank leaf following the prelims (apparently leaf a4) and another preceding the vol. II title-leaf. The unpaginated leaf following p. 498 is R4 and contains a full-page woodcut on the verso (recto blank). The unnumbered folded plate is a table of 'The Order of the Statues & Busts, ... in ye. Great Duke's Gallery, at Florence'. ESTC t89053.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper John Soane.
Binding C18th tree calf, thick gilt-ruled spine, red morocco spine-label.
Reference Number 4303