MANUSCRIPT. Notes on Country Tours. [A hand-written travel journal

MANUSCRIPT. Notes on Country Tours. [A hand-written travel journal of excursions by train around England and a trip to Belgium. N.p.:] 1856-1883. 104pp., manuscript, 8vo (228 x 185mm.) 52 leaves hand-written in a single clearly legible hand detailing excursions around England, numerous mounted engraved views and maps of places visited, and from 1878 there are 15 mounted photographic illustrations. (Text-block broken, several loose leaves, some spotting and browning.) Original boards (spine lacking, upper cover detached). Note: covering nearly a thirty year period of a Londoner’s holidays around England, beginning in 1856 with the Lake District (‘with John’), then Wales, North Devon (‘alone’), Jersey and the Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, Derbyshire, another short tour of the Lake District, then Belgium and the Rhine, Bath, then finally in 1883 to South Devon and Cornwall. There’s a keen eye for detail in these descriptions, especially the industry, the mills and furnaces of the north, and some detailed description of industrial processes, while on other excursions the emphasis is more on walking and church-going.

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