Description: RARE 1803 FRENCH TRAVELOGUE
First Edition "The Stranger in France: or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris, Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tinta of Sketches Taken on the Spot", by (Sir) John Carr, Esq. London, J. Johnson, 1803. 4to, 290 x 225 mm, 11 1/2 x 9 inches, 12 aquatint plates of views, the first being of Torr Abbey in Devon, the second of Southampton, the rest of northwestern France: Le Havre, Caen, Rouen, Cherbourg, A Woman of Caux, Le Bois de Boulogne and one of the ruins in Le Petit Trianon. Sketches drawn by the author and engraved and printed by T. Medland. Pages: viii, 262, in original full calf, applied gilt label, bookplate of Sir Thomas Brancker. Wear to binding, front board attached by cord only, contents foxed, toned.