Johnston, Robert, 1783-1839, Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the country of Poland , 1815
- Title:
- Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the country of Poland : along the southern shores of the Baltic / by Robert Johnston, A.M. ; illustrated with maps and numerous coloured plates ; dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No. 41, Pall-Mall, 1815.
- Physical Description:
- [2], vii, [1], 460 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 31 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDK25 .J64 1815+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionAccessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/754171
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- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Aquatint engravings by Henry Edward Dawe, Charles J. Canton, Frederick Christian Lewis, Joshua Gleadah, Charles Williams, John Hill, and T. Cartwright; after Robert Johnston.
Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, London.
Abbey, J.R. Travel, 15
Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1979 ed.), 286
Hardie, M. English coloured books, p. 141-2
Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, p. 227, 341
Cat. Russica, No. J557
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in later brown half morocco and brown cloth. - Contents:
- Contents of the plates: Copenhagen -- Hamburg -- Stralsund -- Monastery of Olivia -- Frauensberg -- Tilsit -- Cronstadt Boatmen -- Casan church -- Hermitage -- Igiora, a village near St. Petersburg -- Flying Mountain -- Bronnitzi -- Females in the Govt of Novogorod -- A Russian village near Moscow -- Moscow -- Kremlin -- Borodino -- Smolensko --Lithuanian Jewess -- Borisoff -- (Five wood-engravings of ploughs) -- Map of the north west part of Europe -- Map of the north west part of Russia.
- Subject Terms:
- Cox and Baylis -- Printer.Lada-Mocarski, Laura K. (Laura Klots), 1902-1997 -- Bookplate.Lada-Mocarski, Valerian 1898-1971 -- Bookplate.Poland -- Description and travel.Russia -- Description and travel.Stockdale, J. J. -- Publisher.Voyages and travels.
- Form/Genre:
- Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1815.
Wood engravings -- 1815.
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1815. - Export:
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