Creator:

Janson, Charles William

Title:
The stranger in America : containing observations made during a long residence in that country, on the genius, manners and customs of the people of the United States : with biographical particulars of public characters : hints and facts relative to the arts, sciences, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, emigration, and the slave trade / by Charles William Janson, Esq. late of the state of Rhode Island, counsellor at law ; illustrated by engravings.
Published / Created:

London : Albion Press, printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, London, 1807.

Physical Description:
xiii, [2], 16-22, 499, [7] pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
E164 .J35 1807+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
E164 .J35 1807+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
E164 .J35 1807+ Copy 3 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:

With an added engraved title page.

Plates signed: Drawn under the direction of the author, and engraved by M. Merigot [or Marigot; i.e. J. Mérigot?].

Error in pagination: page 499 misprinted 49.

Publisher's advertisements: [6] pages at end.

"Thomas Paine": page 446-451.

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 648

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 649

BEIN Za P166 +S807j: Slightly tinted ...

BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is the Abbey copy (Travel 648) with aquatints with a sepia wash. Bound in half calf and marbled boards

BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is the Abbey copy (Travel 649) with colored aquatints. Bound in half calf.

BAC: British Art Center copy 3 bound in publisher's original brown paper covered boards, with printed spine label. Aquatints with a sepia wash. Bookplate: Edwin Stanton Fickes.

Subject Terms:
Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809. | Slavery -- United States -- Social conditions. | United States -- Description and travel. | United States -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Albion Press -- Publisher. | Fickes, Edwin Stanton -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1807. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1807. | Maps.
Contributors:
Mérigot, J. | Cundee, J