Author: A Wanderer [Matthew Henry Barker]
Title: Walks Round Nottingham
Description: London, Effingham Wilson, 1835 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated guide to Nottingham area walks in the first part of the nineteenth century. Illustrated with seven zinc engravings. Collated, complete.The first edition of this charming guide to pleasant Nottingham walks.The work described five walks of considerable length, and three short walks.The work of Matthew Henry Baker, an English sailor, journalist, newspaper editor and writer of sea tales.Rebound in library cloth, with the Salford Borough Royal Museum Library bookplate to the front pastedown, and with blind stamps to the frontispiece, index leaf, and each plate.With a lengthy appendix to the rear. Rebound in a cloth library binding. Endpapers renewed. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip. Perimeters of front board lightly faded. Head of rear joint and centre of front joint starting, with boards firmly held. Two horizontal tears in the cloth back strip. Library bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Blind stamps to frontispiece, plates and index leaf. Pages bright and generally clean, but with the odd spot and with plates lightly age toned. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Nottingham Nottinghamshire The Nottingham Mercury Nottinghamshire Not Stated


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