Item #24077 Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq. Rev. Charles Cordiner.
Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq.
Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq.
Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq.
Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq.
Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq.

Antiquities & Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant, Esq.

London: 1780.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 9.75" x 7.75", 173 pp + itinerary, list of plates, index, table of contents, with engraved title page and 21 plates, in contemporary full-leather finding. Some chipping to spine ends, front joint cracked and reinforced with cloth tape at the hinge. Contents sound and very clean. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Cordiner's significance centres on two publications: Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant (1780) and Remarkable ruins and romantic prospects of north Britain, with ancient monuments and singular subjects of natural history (2 vols., 1788–95). Both works, relying on visual and verbal description, were early contributions to the construction of a romantic image of the Scottish highlands; and both were conceived as supplements to Thomas Pennant's very successful Scottish tours of 1769 and 1772."

Item #24077

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