Brighton, scenes detachees d'un voyage en Angleterre

Beschreibung

First edition. The journal of a nobleman visiting Brighton. With four full page engraved lithographs by Engelmann. Later half leather binding, with marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine. The spine and gilt is somewhat rubbed, but the binding is sound. New end papers. Original green soft covers are bound in. These are slightly darkened, and there is the loss of a corner to the front cover. Half title. Frontis engraving of the Brighton pavillion (This was a relatively new building at the time, having been completed in the form presented by John Nash in 1822. The frontis engraving is moderately foxed. The rest of the book is lightly foxed / darkened, but the plates are clean. Plates are: Brunswick Terrace, (completed 1826 - curiously, the plate is attributed to Edward Finden after William Westall, c.1830 by the Regency Plates collection); Kemp Town. (the structure shown was begun in 1823 and not completed until 1855); and Brighton pier (This is the suspension chain pier, opened in 1823, and destroyed in a storm in 1896). 408 pages. 22cm x 15cm. Comte A. de La Garde refers to Auguste Louis Charles, le Comte de la Garde (1783 ?), a French aristocrat, author, poet, translator, lyricist, and man of letters. He survived the French Revolution and the subsequent wars, traveling extensively across Europe and keeping detailed diaries of his experiences. In 1827, he visited Brighton, England, and wrote a series of insightful and often humorous articles about his stay, which were published anonymously in the Athenaeum magazine and later compiled as Vignettes of a trip to Brighton (Brighton; scènes détachées d'un voyage en Angleterre). .

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Titel

Brighton, scenes detachees d'un voyage en Angleterre

Verlag

Paris J. -P. Aillaud 1834

Einband

Softcover

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