Promenades de Dieppe aux montagnes d'Ecosse
Paris - Chez Barba - 1821
- Bookbinder : R. RAPARLIER
- Format : In-12
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 331 pp.
Half-maroquin plum wedge binding. Spine with richly decorated nerves with golden caissons. Top edge gilt. Binding signed R. RAPARLIER Frontispiece in colors representing a clan chief in costume.
Also contains 2 botanical plates excluding watercolour text by Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent, a folding map and 3 vignettes after E. Isabey, engraved on wood.
FIRST EDITION.
Nodier made this trip with the painter Eugène Isabey, author of the three drawings in the book, and the artist Alphonse de Cailleux who drew the route map. Nodier also visited Brighton, London and Oxford before moving to Scotland, a very rare first edition.
Very nice copy.
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