Untrodden English Ways

Shelley, Henry C.; Colby, H. C. (Illust.)

Editore: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1908

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First Edition. Hardcover. "When a country has so ancient a history as England, it is inevitable that even its most neglected corners shall enshrine much of human interest. To the author those byways have always possessed a subtler charm than the highways of common knowledge. Hence the seeking out of the unusual attempted in these pages." This 1908 travelogue is all about England's less travelled by paths and will have you spelunking down Kent's Cavern in Devonshire, coming face to face before Westminster Abbey's royal waxworks (eat your heart out, Madame Tussaud), exploring the Thames-side village of Cookham through famed painter Frederick Walker's eyes or the Hempstead of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin, navigating the Venetian-like waterways of the Norfolk Broads, enjoying the four B's of Witney (Beauty, Bread, Beer, and Blankets), witnessing water worship in Derbyshire and Well-Dressing Day at Tissington Village, trespassing through the ruins of Warkworth Castle, and paying your respects at a great many graves, including those of John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, George Eliot, John Hogarth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a great many faithful friends, including "Satan" himself in the Duchess of York's Dog Cemetery at Oatlands Park in Weybridge. Ex-Thomaston, Maine Public Library, with only sign being their blind-stamp to title page and other occasional pages throughout. 8 3/4" X 6". xv, 341pp, plus unopened one page of ads. Bound in pale misty blue cloth over boards, with English pastoral scenes, including horses at harvest-time in Norfolk, fishermen in a stream, and a proud windmill at work in the Fens, stamped in bright gilt to upper board, lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. Very faint rubbing to corners, gentle bumping to head and tail of spine, and slight lean to spine, else fine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated in four color plates and nearly 30 vignettes by H. C. Colby as well as over 50 photographic images by the author. Codice articolo 14868

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Titolo: Untrodden English Ways

Casa editrice: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston

Data di pubblicazione: 1908

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near fine

Edizione: First Edition.