A journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow through Courland and Livonia

Ritchie, Leitch

Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown et al., London, 1836

About this Item

First edition, large 8vo, pp. iv, [4], 256; steel-engraved frontispiece and half-title, 24 mounted plates with guards, a.e.g., large paper copy measuring 23.7 cm, plate at p. 71 is present in a proof state on tissue paper and mounted and bound in as frontispiece, a.e.g., bookbinder's ticket on rear paste-down of "E. Westley, Friar Street, near Doctors Common", some plates lightly spotted, minor wear to extremities, else very good in contemporary red morocco with gilt-decorated spine, rebacked with the original spine neatly laid down. Ritchie (1800-1865) was an English novelist who enjoyed some renown as a travel writer. This is a factual account of a journey made in April, 1835, under the employ of Charles Heath (1785-1848) the engraver and promoter of, among other illustrated annuals, "Heath's Picturesque Annual". Heath was an engraver of "great taste and delicacy" [DNB] whose engravings "are executed wtih marvellous technical skill and fidelity"--DNB. Among his pupils were the well known engravers Doo and Watt. The plates in this publication are after drawings by A.G. Vickers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A journey to St. Petersburg and Moscow through Courland and Livonia
• Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown et al., London
• Publication Date: 1836
• Edition: First Edition.
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