Supplemental Plates to the Tours in Wales

by Thomas Pennant

$275 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: White, 1781 . Slim 4to, 7pp. text and 10 plates one folding . Cleaned and recently bound in half speckled calf, red morocco label, green boards, by Dusel. § The extra plates that go with the first edition of Pennant’s Tours of Wales, usually cited as Pennant’s best book. “Pennant's topographical and geographical works were admired by many of his contemporaries, including Samuel Johnson, who praised him as the best traveller I ever

• Binding: Leather

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