Pennant (Thomas): Some Account of London, The Fourth Edition...

Hammer

£220

Pennant (Thomas): Some Account of London, The Fourth Edition, with Considerable Additions, large paper copy, London: Printed for Robert Faulder, 1805, pp: [vi], 415, [8] (index), illustrated with 112 engravings (including the fold-out panorama of Elizabethan London), contemporary diced calf, gilt double-fillets and blind-rolled with anthemions, marbled edges and endpapers, 4to, (1); the third edition, [London]: Printed for John Archer, 1791, some plates, contemporary publisher's boards only (perished spine), upper-cover with contemporary bookseller's ticket: Grant Bolton & Co., Dame Street, Dublin, some indistinct early 19th century and later ownership inscriptions, loosely-inserted ephemera, 8vo, (1); The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant, Esq., first edition, London: Sold by Benjamin and John White [...], 1793, pp: [vi], 144, illustrated with 4 engravings (including the hand-coloured satirical Church Militant caricature), rebacked contemporary marbled boards, edges uncut, 4to, (1); A Tour in Wales, volume II only, London: Benjamin West, 1784, illustrated, contemporary diced calf blind, 4to, (1), [4]

Provenance: 1st: 1) Thomas Fisher, contemporary ink MS inscription to title-page; 2) Richard Baggallay (?1816-1888, ?later Sir Richard, the Attorney General and MP), his Plain Armorial bookplate.