Search Results: a handbook for travellers in spain by ford richard

Nabu Press, 2011-09-04. Paperback. Good. 1.1800 in x 9.6100 in x 7.4000 in. Book a little bent. Good study copy.

London: John Murray. 7th. 1890. good-. Hardcover. 2 VOLS. 6.75" tall; flexible red boards with gilt lettering front & spine; wear to edges & splits along front gutters of both volumes; bindings are shaky; silk ribbon place-markers; free front endpage (half of the map of Spain) of Vol. 1 is detached but present; fold-out b/w & 2-color maps bound in; fold-out map 24" x 30" in pocket on back endpage of Vol. 2 .

J. Murray. Fine. 1892. 8th Edition. Hardcover. Appears to have never been used, all maps are perfect, lovely book .

London, Paris, Gibraltar, and Malta: John Murray/Galignani & Co.; Stassin & Xavier/George Rowswell/Muir, 1855. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 3rd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Custom-bound full calf, bordered and with spine panel compartments in gilt, 5 raised bands, dentilled edges, marbled text block edges and endpapers. Rubbed joints, corners, and bands, spine gilt partially rubbed away, publisher label now lacking, minor sticker ghost to lower front board. Firm binding, clean interior. Lacking front blank preceding main title, interior otherwise fully intact. Stated 3rd edition. 459 pp., (2) folding maps. A respectable copy, quite scarce early edition..

London: John Murray, 1869. Fair. Richard Ford's "A Handbook for Travellers in Spain" (1845) marked a defining moment in English travel literature British tourists were traveling through Europe in increasing numbers and the need for guidebooks was beginning to be supplied by publishers like In 1845 Ford, who had gained tremendous knowledge of Spain by extensive travel on horseback, wrote this charming account enlivened by humor and anecdotesIn Ford's obituary, commonly attributed to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, "so great a literary achievement had never before been performed under so humble a title" Ford marked, with George Borrow the eccentric English traveler, an interest in Spain that would continue through the twentieth century on the part of British writers: Gerald Brenan, Norman Lewis and George Orwell were among the most eminent of these successors, with Jason Webster (the author of "Duende," "Andalus" and "Guerra") and Chris Stewart (the author of "Driving Over Lemons") being contemporary As… Read More