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.
- Title
- 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.
- Published by
- London, Published by Allen & West, 1796.
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- Description
- iv, 217 p. 100 col. plates.; 28 cm.
- Subject
- Call number
- Arents S 0875
- Note
- Many plates depict pipe-smokers, e. g. nos. 3-4, 6-7, and 10-13; numerous references to smoking in text, e. g. p. 24: "With expectation in their eyes, and pipes in their mouths, they wait whole hours ..." (anglers; cf. plate 10)
- Plates engraved by I. Cruikshank, after drawings by Woodward.
- Author
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
- Title
- 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.
- Imprint
- London, Published by Allen & West, 1796.
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- Added author
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811. Illustrator
- Research call number
- Arents S 0875