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Tourism and Topography in Georgian England. Seven gentleman-tourist's manuscript travel narratives, dated 1771-1783, ink manuscript on foolscap paper, contemporaneously paginated in four sections, 1) 1771 tour to Scotland, 111pp; 2) 1778 trip from London, presumably where the author is based, to Portsmouth, pp 1-42, 1780 Scotland pp 43-54, 1781 London to Chichester pp 95-113; 3) 1777 journey to Scotland; 4) 1783 London to Devon pp 1-18, & n.d. extract of a journey from London, incomplete, but including passages on Peterborough, pp 19-28, each travel narrative in the manner of a letter, yet without any indication of recipient or author, and with typical topographical and antiquarian observation, some remarks on the various country seats and houses, when mentioned, and their owners, occasional tit-bits of gossip, etc., one loosely-inserted [2]ff quite in a conforming hand and not absent from the sense of previous accounts, slightly later quarter-calf over papered boards, almost certainly early 19th c, split and loose covers, some losses of calf spine, text block with movement but holding, folio (33.9 x 21.6cm)
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