Thomas Roscoe,
Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales. With; Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales.
London: Charles Tilt, and Simpkin and Co. (1837)
A pleasing early example of Roscoe’s famous travelogue of North and South Wales in the publishers stunning full red Moroccan binding. Complete in all respects.
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A pleasing early example of Roscoe’s famous travelogue of North and South Wales in the publishers stunning full red Moroccan binding. Complete in all respects.
A pleasing early example of Roscoe’s famous travelogue of North and South Wales in the publishers stunning full red Moroccan binding. Complete in all respects.
The volume(s) measure about 25 cm. by 16.5 cm. by 5 cm.
Each leaf measures about 240 mm. by 155 mm.
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- Biography / Bibliography
Main description
The full titles read as follows:
Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales: With the scenery of the RiverWye. By Thomas Roscoe. Esq. Forty-Eight engravings, By Radcliffe, from drawings by Cox, Harding, Fielding, Creswick, Watson, &c. London: Charles Tilt, and Simpkin and Co. Wrightson and Webb, Birmingham. (N.D.) (but 1837 – 1840)
The volume is paginated as follows: [12] + 268 pp + [2] + 48 plates as called for.
Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales. By Thomas Roscoe. Esq. With Fifty-One Engravings by Radcliffe, from drawings. By Cattermole, Cox, Creswick, &c. London: Charles Tilt, and Simpkin and Co. Wrightson and Webb, Birmingham. (N.D.) (but 1837 – 1840)
The volume is paginated as follows: [14], 261, [3] p. + 51 plates as called for.
Originally published with a date to the title page (1836 N Wales, 1837 S Wales), these volumes are early undated impressions (C. 1837 – 1840) and were issued by the publisher as a set in either cloth or leather, both with the same decorations. There would be a second edition in 1844 with 100 plates instead of the 99 called for here. Bohn would produce another set again in 1862.
Condition
A very good plus binding for both volumes. Bound in the publishers full red Moroccan leather, with elaborate gilt and blind stamped decorations to the boards and ornate stamped title decorations to the smooth spine. The boards and spine with some scuffing, but generally still relatively clean and unworn. The binding remains firm and tight with no cracks. Some cracking in the endpapers. Internally the plates have some foxing but are all clear dark impressions. Most tissue guards present. The list of plates with a minor binding error to the bottom gutter folding over two leaves.
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Biography / Bibliography
ROSCOE, THOMAS (1791–1871), author and translator, fifth son of William Roscoe [q. v.], was born at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on 23 June 1791, and educated by Dr. W. Shepherd and by Mr. Lloyd, a private tutor. Soon after his father’s pecuniary embarrassments, in 1816, he began to write in local magazines and journals, and he continued to follow literature as a profession until a few years before his death, which took place in his eighty-first year, on 24 Sept. 1871, at Acacia Road, St. John’s Wood, London. He married Elizabeth Edwards, and had seven children.
The following are his principal original works:
‘Gonzalo, the Traitor: a Tragedy,’ 1820.
‘The King of the Peak’ [anon.], 1823, 3 vols.
‘Owain Goch: a Tale of the Revolution’ [anon.], 1827, 3 vols.
‘The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy,’ 1830 (being the first volume of the ‘Landscape Annual,’ followed in eight succeeding years by similar volumes on Italy, France, and Spain).
‘Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales,’ 1836.
‘Wanderings in South Wales’ (partly written by Louisa A. Twamley, afterwards Mrs. Meredith), 1837.
‘The London and Birmingham Railway,’ 1839.
‘Book of the Grand Junction Railway,’ 1839 (the last two were afterwards issued together as the ‘Illustrated History of the London and North-Western Railway’).
‘Legends of Venice,’ 1841.
‘Belgium in a Picturesque Tour,’ 1841.
‘A Summer Tour in the Isle of Wight,’ 1843.
‘Life of William the Conqueror,’ 1846.
‘The Last of the Abencerages, and other Poems,’ 1850.
‘The Fall of Granada.’
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