DESCENT OF THE DANUBE, FROM RATISBON TO VIENNA, DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1827.
Reading edition
WITH
ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS,
HISTORICAL AND LEGENDARY,
OF THE
TOWNS, CASTLES, MONASTERIES, etc., UPON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER,
AND THEIR INHABITANTS AND PROPRIETORS, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
By J. R. PLANCHE,
AUTHOR OF “LAYS AND LEGENDS OF THE RHINE,” “OBERON,” AN OPERA, etc.
Ye glorious Gothic scenes! how much ye strike All phantasies, not even excepting mine: A grey wall, a green ruin, rusty pike, Make my soul pass the equinoctial line, Between the present and past worlds, and hover Upon their airy confine, half-seas-over.
Don Juan, Canto X.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES DUNCAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
MDCCCXXVIII.
On Stone by L. Haghe. W. Day Lithog. 17 Gate St.
SCHLOSS BÖSENBEUG.
The Summer Residence of the Emperor of Austria and the Town of Ips on the Danube.
LONDON: Printed by William Clowes, Stamford Street.
TO SAMUEL RUSH MEYRICK, OF GOODERICH COURT, HEREFORDSHIRE, ESQUIRE, LL.D., F.S.A., etc. etc. THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS VERY SINCERE AND MUCH OBLIGED FRIEND,
J. R. PLANCHE.
Brompton-Crescent, July 1, 1828.