Hogarth's peregrination / edited with an introduction by Charles Mitchell ; [text by Ebenezer Forrest]

Forrest, Ebenezer

1952, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Good cloth copy in a very good, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to prelims. Previous owner's inscription. Provenance: bookplate of L. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #451383

Physical description; xxxi, 51 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsim., map ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes a version in Hudibrastic verse by W. Gostling. Reprint. Originally published: Account of what seemed most remarkable in the five days' peregrination... London : R. Livesay, 1782. Contents; Introduction -- An account of what seem'd most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons vizt. Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill & Forrest. Begun on Saturday May the 27th 1732 and finish'd on the 31st of the same month, by Ebenezer Forrest -- An account. Subjects; Hogarth, William (1697-1764) Travel England Kent. Kent (England) Description and travel. Artists Great Britain Anecdotes. English wit and humor 18th century.

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