Here and there over the water: being cullings in a trip to the Netherlands. (The Field of Battle and Monuments - Waterloo, &c.) by Omnium Gatherum [...].

4to: front.-[2]-34 pp.; 27 pl. (some offsetting from the plates to the text and light foxing).

Later brown polished half calf, marbled paper on covers, flat spine with mod. title label.

First edition of this comical journey through the Southern Netherlands, illustrated with a frontispiece - a figure flying in a patented tea kettle jet-pack for easy Channel crossing holding a shopping bag and a pliable antenna - and 27 aquatint plates of which 23 delicately heightened by G. Hunt or W. Bartlett after Egerton. By means of a roaring steam kettle the traveller crosses the Channel and goes on to see the Purgatory Gate in Ostend, taking the Barge or Trekschuit to Ghent, paying a visit to the palace of Schoonenberg near Laeken, observing the peasants in the neighbourhood of Brussels... The journey ends with a visit to Waterloo and a description of the funerary monuments of the place. Illustrations drawn by the author himself and engraved by the editor. Egerton, a.k.a. Omnium Gatherum was active between 1821 and 1828; almost all his work was engraved by George Hunt.
Ref. Abbey I:188.