FELLOWES, W.D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817: with notes, taken during a tour through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with numerous coloured engravings, from drawings made on the spot. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Quarto: an unusually large-paper copy, with thirteen fine hand colored aquatint plates and two plain plates: xii, 188 pp. . Lovely binding in full green morocco, in superb condition. The ‘Fourth Edition’. In excellent shape, apart from one gathering that has ‘sprung’ a little. AEG. "First published by William Stockdale in 1818, with new editions in 1818 and 1820. Judging by the late watermark in the plates this 1823 M'Lean edition was kept in print for some years" (Abbey). "I performed this journey during the months of June, July, August, and September, a distance of near one thousand miles, and had the singular good fortune to enjoy the finest weather possible. The perusal of Madame de La Roche-Jaquelin's interesting work on the Vendean war, first gave me the idea of visiting the country called le Bocage, the theatre of so many events, and sufferings of the brave royalists; and, as the province of le Perche, in which is situated the ancient convent of La Trappe, was in my route to Bretagne, I resolved to make an excursion there, in order to satisfy myself of the truth of those austerities which I had read of in the Memoirs of the Count de Comminge…" (Chapter 1). Tooley, 212; Abbey, Travel, 91; Martin Hardie, p. 313; Prideaux, p.335 (1818 edition).