Tour through Paris
by SAMS William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1822. First Edition . (SAMS, William). A Tour through Paris. London: William Sams, [1825]. Tall folio (11 by 15 inches), modern full brown calf, raised bands. $5800.Second edition of this vividly illustrated tour of the streets and inhabitants of early 19th-century Paris, with 21 finely hand-colored folio aquatint plates.The vibrant plates feature ""Street Characters""scenes of everyday city life rather than stately monuments, such as jugglers, vendors, dancers, porters, stilt-walkers, itinerants, fishmongers, flower sellers, soldiers, water-carriers, and the wealthy on promenade. Plates watermarked ""J. Whatman/ Turkey Mill/ 1825."" First published in 1824 in an oblong format under the title A Tour of Paris, beginning in 1822 with four parts with a total of 16 plates; the fifth part with the remaining five plates was issued in 1824. The present edition was issued shortly thereafter, with a new title and letterpress text reset to conform with an upright layout rather than oblong. ""This edition is often cited as 1822-24, but, apart from a study of watermarks in a large number of copies, there seems to be no way of dating it
watermarks as late as 1833 are known"" (Abbey). Abbey, Travel 114. Tooley 443, 444. One plate with a neatly repaired closed marginal tear. Plates generally fine, hand-coloring vivid. A near-fine copy of this lovely illustrated volume.
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- Bookseller
- Bauman Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 105477
- Title
- Tour through Paris
- Author
- SAMS William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1822
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