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Carr, Sir John (1772-1832)
A Tour through Holland along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, in theSouth of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807 Inscribed on the front free-endpaper from Konrad Adenauer to his Friend the Famous American Industrialist Dannie Heineman, Bonn November, 1952. Carr was a notorious writer, poet and illustrator, best known for his series of aquatint plate travel books depicting British and Continental views, such as this one of the Rhine. He was Knighted in 1805 and satirized by Walter Scott and others. Byron begged to be omitted from his Descriptive Travels in Spain (1811) and pilloried Carr in a cancelled passage of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809). His work is in the British Museum First edition. 4to. With map and 20 aquatints. xvi, 468 pp. Contemporary tree calf. In modern presentation cloth box
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