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CARR, John. The Stranger In Ireland; Or, A Tour In The Southern And Western Parts of That Country, In The Year 1805. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, ... 1806. First edition. 4to., recently rebound with tan calf spine, marble boards, raised bands, blindstamped decoration in compartments, leather label, (xvi), (1)-530, (2)pp.ads. With 17 tinted aquatint plates, some folding. Titlepage has been professionally reinforced along the outer edge, tear on p/ vii/viii has been professionally repaired, some light scattered foxing but in fact a near fine copy. |
 JOHN CARR [1772–1832], travel writer, was born in London on 6 December 1772. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple but gave up the law to travel for health reasons and published accounts illustrated by his own sketches of his journeys in various European countries. After the success of The Stranger in Paris (1803) he published A Northern Summer (1805) and The Stranger in Ireland (1806)., A Tour through Holland followed in 1807. The rapidity with which he turned out his books and their superficiality began to attract comment and earned him the nickname ‘the jaunting car’. In 1807 his Irish book was satirized by Edward Dubois in My pocket-book, or, Hints for a ‘ryghte merrie and conceitede’ tour, in quarto, to be called, ‘The stranger in Ireland’. For this satire the publishers were prosecuted in 1809. Dubois had mocked not only the style of Carr's books but also their profitability to Carr and his publishers and the trial revealed that Carr had received £1900 for his four travel books. Carr lost his case. Undeterred by Dubois's satire, in 1808 he published Caledonian Sketches which in turn became the subject of a witty review by Sir Walter Scott in the Quarterly Review. His last travel book, Descriptive Travels in … Spain, appeared in 1811. Lord Byron, who had met Carr in Cadiz, refers to him in some suppressed stanzas of canto 1 of Childe Harolde as ‘Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star’. Carr also published two volumes of poetry and a play. (DNB). Abbey 455. $3,000.00 |
