The Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations of William Lithgow
Lithgow, William
| Publication Date |
1974 |
| Publisher |
Folio Society |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy in poor slipcase |
| SKU |
25370 |
| Notes |
Very clean bright and neat in faded and slightly damaged slipcase. Previous owner’s ex libris label to prelims. |
Description
Hardback. The extraordinary tales of the seventeenth century Scottish traveller William Lithgow. “William Lithgow’s Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations is one of the world’s greatest travel books, and a neglected masterpiece of our prose literature”. Edited with an introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Full green leather binding in with gilt titles and gilt decorations to spine and gilt decorations to front. Frontis and nine further illustrations. Colour illustrated map to endpapers and four further black and white maps, three of which are double page. Yellow slipcase.
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