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KELSALL, Charles (1782-1857). Classical Excursion from Rome to Arpino. Geneva: printed for the author by Manget and Cherbuliez, imprimerie de Luc Sestié, 1820.
8° (225 x 148mm). Collation: []2 1-168. Folding engraved frontispece, 4 plates and maps, 3 engraved and 1 lithographed. (Slight browning to two plates.) Contemporary brown half morocco, t.e.g. (extremities slightly scuffed). Provenance: James Rimington.
FIRST, PRIVATELY PRINTED, EDITION by "this strangely forgotten neo-classical genius" (David Watkin. Thomas Hope 1769-1831 and the Neo-Classical Idea. 1968). Kelsall was educated at Eton and Trinity, Cambridge and by 1807 had embarked on a life of travel and scholarship. "In 1819 he walked from Rome to Arpino to visit the remains of Cicero's villa, where he was horrified to find no memorial to him " (Watkin. op.cit.). This work, with various digressions, describes the journey and suggests a suitable design for a proposed monument. The final part describes an Excursion from Naples to the Isle of Capri. Watkin. op.cit. p.243.
8° (225 x 148mm). Collation: []2 1-168. Folding engraved frontispece, 4 plates and maps, 3 engraved and 1 lithographed. (Slight browning to two plates.) Contemporary brown half morocco, t.e.g. (extremities slightly scuffed). Provenance: James Rimington.
FIRST, PRIVATELY PRINTED, EDITION by "this strangely forgotten neo-classical genius" (David Watkin. Thomas Hope 1769-1831 and the Neo-Classical Idea. 1968). Kelsall was educated at Eton and Trinity, Cambridge and by 1807 had embarked on a life of travel and scholarship. "In 1819 he walked from Rome to Arpino to visit the remains of Cicero's villa, where he was horrified to find no memorial to him " (Watkin. op.cit.). This work, with various digressions, describes the journey and suggests a suitable design for a proposed monument. The final part describes an Excursion from Naples to the Isle of Capri. Watkin. op.cit. p.243.