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Flying over the canal with a tea kettle on your back

[EGERTON, Michael].
Here and there over the water: being cullings in a trip to the Netherlands. (The field of battle and monuments- Waterloo, &c.) by Omnium Gatherum.

With 28 aquatints, of which 24 hand-coloured and engraved by George Hunt after drawings Michael Egerton, interleaved with blank leaves.

With 28 aquatints, of which 24 hand-coloured and engraved by George Hunt after drawings Michael Egerton, interleaved with blank leaves.

With 28 aquatints, of which 24 hand-coloured and engraved by George Hunt after drawings Michael Egerton, interleaved with blank leaves.

With 28 aquatints, of which 24 hand-coloured and engraved by George Hunt after drawings Michael Egerton, interleaved with blank leaves.

With 28 aquatints, of which 24 hand-coloured and engraved by George Hunt after drawings Michael Egerton, interleaved with blank leaves.



London, George Hunt, 1825. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (BAYNTUN, Bath). With 28 aquatints, of which 24 hand-coloured and engraved by George Hunt after drawings Michael Egerton, interleaved with blank leaves. [2], 34 pp.

First edition of a curious account of an excursion to the Netherlands and Belgium by Michael Egerton (fl.1821 - 1828). The handsome plates depict coaches, barges, the Exchange at Antwerp, costumes, tombstones and monuments at Waterloo. The trip starts at Ostend, then Egerton travels to Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp; the journey ends at Waterloo.
With bookplate of Charles Dunlap. Fine copy.
Abbey, Travel 188; Tooley, Coloured Plates 207.

Related Subjects: Colour Platebooks  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Netherlands  Travel & Voyages 

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