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A GUIDE THROUGH THE DISTRICT OF THE LAKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

Name: A GUIDE THROUGH THE DISTRICT OF THE LAKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
Author: Wordsworth, William
ISBN: -

Book Description

Fifth Edition 1835 with considerable additions. This edition is considered the definitive text. Size 12mo, 17 x 11cm; xxiv, 139pp plus errata. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine by Henry Young & Sons Liverpool, some fading, solid. Nice 1873 Windermere inscription on ffep (see photo) Text in very good clean condition, some light foxing. Complete with folding map frontispiece, very good condition, small tear at fold. One page with period pencil annotation. Very nice example.

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Wordsworth’s guidebook to the Lake District has been studied by scholars both for its relationship to his romantic poetry and as an early influence on 19th C geography.
Originally written because Wordsworth needed money.

Author Wordsworth, William

Date 1835

Binding Red cloth

Publisher Kendal: Hudson And Nicholson

Illustrator -

Condition Very Good

Pages xxiv, 139pp

Price: £200.00

Offered by Paul Bostock Rare Books

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