Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country in different parts of England & South Wales
Subtitle: interspersed with curious anecdotes, embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints
By: by G.M. Woodward ...
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Published by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons; Description and travel; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Eccentric excursions; Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance, character & country; Literary and pictorial sketches of countenance, character and country
Notes: Engraved title page.

Signatures: pi1(engraved) [A]² B-3I² 3K1.

Hand colored plates, engraved after the author by Isaac Cruikshank.

The plates are dated between Aug. 1, 1796 and Apr. 15, 1797; plates 66-100 have imprint of Allen & co.; the others, of Allen & West. Plates 4-7, 10-11, 17-41, 43-50, 52 are without captions. For a description of an incomplete set of the plates, varying slightly, see George.

Variations in plate numbering: frontispiece not included in numbering, no. 25 misnumbered 65, no. 29 omitted from numbering, no. 31 repeated, nos. 99 and 100 on same leaf.

George, 8929-8976, 9115-9155

ESTC N9066

Bookplate of Charles Hurt.

In this copy, the numbering of plates 25 & 30, originally misnumbered 65 & 31 respectively, have been corrected in ink; plate 29, originally unnumbered, is numbered in ink.

Laid in this copy is a duplicate of plate 18, trimmed.

Contemporary mottled calf; marbled endpapers; in brown morocco case.