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Title: Edwardian Excursions. From the Diaries of A.C.Benson 1898-1904.
Description: London: John Murray, 1981. 071953769X. 1st edition. "This selection from the first few years is a marvellous evocation of Edwardian Britain, a series of twelve period pieces mixing London and the countryside, Imperial, viceregal and episcopal splendour with the private pleasures of landscape and antiquities..His mode of transport was the bicycle. It made one independent, was fast enough to cover the ground but slow enough to allow his photographic or (as he put it) 'somewhat microscopic' eye to notice the little incidents and telling detail.." Pp.x/190,10 black and white illustrations. Green cloth, dustwrapper price-clipped but is in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/VG.

Keywords: A C Benson Newsome Edwardian Excursions Diary Gladstone Funeral Cambridge Beverley Lionel Ford Dublin Viceregal Lodge Dolgellau Coronation Edward VII Norfolk Car Swinburne Whittingehame 48498 General Biography

Price: GBP 70.00 = appr. US$ 99.96 Seller: Chilton Books
- Book number: 46941

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