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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Seller: Madoc Books

United Kingdom
About Item: Bath: R Cruttwell, 1798. Second Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GIRTON T. ALKEN S.. VG, 2nd ed, 1798, 1 pl, 17 illust maps, 13 printers devices. In refurbished half calf, marbled boards. Re-spined, raised bands, gilt tooling, original red calf label, gilt titles. Internally, half titlet, frontis, [7], (viii) only, [1], 2-238 pp, [2] adverts, 1 pl (B&W), 17 maps within text, 13 printers devices, new eps, ink name to fpd (D Wilkinson), ink numbers to fep, paper watermarked 97. A nice copy. (ESTC T92267. Graesse 421. Lowndes 2844/5. Allibone 2585). Warner, spent his vacation of August 1796 in Wales, walking from Bath to Caernarfon and back; he covered 36 miles on the first day and 462 miles in all, at an average of 26 miles a day. Naturally his tour included visits to antiquities, which he described in a series of letters, published as A Walk through Wales in 1797. See ODNB for a full bio.
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