Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
Title:
Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland : in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends / by Mr. Dibdin.
Published / Created:
London : Published by G. Goulding, No. 45, Pall-Mall; John Walker, No. 44, Paternoster-Row; and at the author's warehouse, Leicester-Place. Printed by T. Woodfall, Little Russell-Street, Covent-Garden, [1801-1802]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:
Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The views are done from pictures painted by Mr. Dibdin; the vignettes are invented, drawn and put on the copper by Miss [Ann] Dibdin, and the aquatinta is by Mr. Hill"--P. [8].

Date of publication from NSTC. The letters are dated Nov. 5, 1800 to April 10, 1802. Plates are dated 1801-1802.

Illustrations include 40 numbered large plates, 20 numbered vignettes on separate leaves, folded plan, folded table, and facsimile in text.

Paging irregular.

NSTC, D1044

BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is bound 2 volumes in 1, in gilt-tooled red morocco. Plates are uncolored plates. Copy 2 is bound in 2 volumes, in half calf and marbled boards. Plates are hand-colored.
Subject Terms:
Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814 -- Correspondence. | Great Britain -- Description and travel. | Scotland -- Description and travel. | Goulding, G. -- Publisher | Walker, John -- Publisher | Senhouse, Roger -- Bookplate. | Woodfall, T. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Travel literature. | Aquatints -- 1801-1802. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1801-1802.
Contributors:
Dibdin, Anne, approximately 1776–, engraver. | Hill, I., engraver.