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CABINENT OF THE ARTS: BEING A NEW AND UNIVERSAL DRAWING BOOK FORMING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF DRAWING, PAINTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, ETCHING, ENGRAVING, PERSPECTIVE, PROJECTION & SURVEYING...
Dougall, J.
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- London : R. Ackermann n.d. (1821)
- 4to.
- new cloth spine with paper spine label with original paper covered boards.
- Frontispiece; engraved title page, iii, (v), 384 pages.
- Order Nr. 102974
- Price: $ 650.00
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Second edition with additions. This is the text volume only and does not include the plate volume with 130 engravings. Bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Wear along edges of covers. Inner hinges reinforced with archival paper repair.
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A TRIP TO PARIS IN JULY & AUGUST 1799.
by Twiss, Richard
One of 120 copies. Richard Twiss (1747-1821) was an 18th century travel writer of some renown. He went out of his way to stir up controversy as the resulting publicity increased the sale of his books. His second book, A tour of Ireland in 1775, full of disparaging remarks, sneers and ridicule, earned him universal dislike in the country, but made the book a best-seller. Irish anger was visibly expressed by the production and sale of thousands of chamberpots ("Twiss-pots") with a picture of Twiss printed on the bottom.
In 1793, he published A Trip to Paris in July and August, 1792, which is the basis for the present book. Twiss' tendency to be overly-critical appears here and there in the Paris book, but alongside the mundane details of transport, sight-seeing, food and lodging and currency exchange, which all travelers want to know, he is on the ground reporting the bloody events of a violent revolution in progress.
A Trip to Paris is printed on Arches laid paper and quarterbound in morocco with Japanese cloth sides. Four wood engravings by Wesley Bates illustrate the text. Two tipped in specimens and prospectus are also included.
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