PAUL, John Dean (1802-1868). A Trip to Brighton. London: Thomas McLean, 1824. 4 hand-coloured aquatint strip sections after Paul (each sheet 244 x 625mm; engraved area 98 x 552mm), tipped into window-mounts and preserved in 20th-century oblong green buckram box, large red morocco title label. Provenance: puchased from Hamill and Barker, 15 January 1936. AN EXCELLENT UNCUT COPY OF THIS BRIGHTON COACHING PANORAMA. Brighton was established as the most fashionable English pleasure resort, Mrs Fitzherbert reporting in 1818 that '"fifty-two coaches go from hence to London every day and bring people down for six shillings"' (quoted by Dorothy George, Hogarth to Cruikshank, 1967, p. 218). By 1820 the last phase of the Pavilion's transformation by Nash was complete. But when the railway reached the resort in 1841, most of the London-Brighton coaches stopped. The scenes of setting out and arrival combined with accidents on the crowded highway were probably engraved by Alken and undoubtedly show his influence. Sir John Dean Paul was a member of the banking firm of Snow, Paul and Paul, educated at Westminster and Eton, but ODNB and other biographical records say nothing about his interest in art or connection with Alken. FIRST ISSUE with J. Whatman 1822 watermarks. cf. Abbey Life 488.