Descriptive travels in the southern and eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809, by Sir John Carr, K.C.

London : Printed by Sherwood, Neely and Jones, Paternoster-Row, Faulder and Rodwell, Bond-Street, and J. M. Richardson, Cornhill, 1811.

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Carr was a popular and widely read travel writer of the Regency age. Jane Austen mentions this volume in one of her letters to her sister Cassandra in 1813. Sir Walter Scott wrote an essay criticising Carr’s ‘Caledonian Sketches’ of 1806 in his volume of Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of 1841. Carr also produced volumes of travels in France and Holland.

The Spanish volume, published in 1811 following his trip there in 1809, is a handsome quarto volume with six engraved plates, the frontispiece being a folded folio size drawing of the Palace of the Alhambra in Granada.

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