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CARR, John.
A Northern Summer; or Travels Round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia and part of Germany in the Year 1804.
Carr gave up the law to travel for health reasons and published accounts illustrated by his own sketches of his journeys in various European countries. After the success of The Stranger in Paris (1803) he published A Northern Summer (1805) and The Stranger in Ireland (1806), soon after which he was knighted by the duke of Bedford, then viceroy of Ireland. A Tour through Holland followed in 1807.
- Published
- London: Richard Phillips, 1805.
- References
- Abbey Travel 73. Nerhood 135. Bobins I 182. Prideaux pp. 218, 330.
- Plates
- 11
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Richard Phillips, 1805.
- Ref
- 463
FIRST EDITION - the large paper issue. Contemporary half calf, gilt title lettering on red leather spine label, marbled boards are a little rubbed, very light foxing mainly confined to tissue guards & few margins two preliminary leaves possibly from a shorter copy; a fine copy in a handsome binding. 4to [28 x 21.5 cm]; xii 480 pp 11 hand-coloured aquatint plates including one folding (old repair at fold) with the half-title page. Almost all copies were issued in a smaller format and with the plates uncoloured sepia-toned. This is a wide-margin copy with all the plates finely hand-coloured. The plates from paintings by J. Carr and engraved by T. Medland. Coloured plates in order: 1. Copenhagen. 2. Cronborg Castle & Elsineur, from Hamlets Garden. 3. A Sweedish Village Church. 4. Stockholm. 5. Haga. 6. Upsala. 7. Petersburg taken from the Steeple of St. Peter & St. Paul. (folding plate) 8. House and Boat built by Peter the Great. 9. Hall & Winter Garden in the Taurida Palace. 10. Narva. 11. Brandenburgh Gate, Berlin.
