Add MS 41761

JOURNAL of a Tour through the Island of Elba, 26 Apr.-5 May 1789, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Bart., of Stourhead, the Wiltshire antiquary and archaeologist, preceded by a map of the island and followed by thirty-two sepia wash sketches, the latter (except nos. 1, 14) being described and signed by Hoare on the back. Autograph. The volume was written in 1793 (cf. f. 1) and was published (in a much mangled form and with additions, including an account of Bonaparte and his family) in 1814 under the title A Tour through the Island of Elba by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., illustrated with Views drawn from Nature by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., and John Smith, seven of the drawings (viz. nos. 1, 5, 3, 14, 6, 28, 26) being engraved (often with much modification) as illustrations (pls. 1-6, 8); sketch no. 16 may have served as the basis for pl. 7. Paper; ff. 60. Large folio. A.D. 1793. Contemporary binding of brown leather, with the crest of the Hoares of Stourhead (viz. an eagle's head, erased, arg., charged with an ermine spot) stamped on the spine. Vol. iii of the 'Foreign Drawings' listed by J. B. Nichols in his Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, co. Wilts., 1840, p. 543. Sotheby's sale-cat., 9-13 Dec. 1887, lot 640.