Author: WEY FRANCIS TRANSLATED VALERIE PIRIE
Title: A Frenchman Sees the English in the 'fifties
Description: London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1935, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price punched DW faint foxing, light edgewear, small tears at corner folds, light soiling, minor tape repairs to verso of DW, book has name to fep, closed edges browned, 312pp + plates and tissue guarded frontis, Wey toured England in 1851 and published this work in French in 1856, now first translated and published, Wey visited the Great Exhibition and Crystal Palace, and comments on the legal system and the Irish Question. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: British History Nineteenth Century Travel Writing French Francis Wey


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