Author: BOUGHTON, GEORGE H.,
Title: Sketching Rambles in Holland. [First edition].
Description: London, Macmillan and Co., 1885. Large stout 8°., original cloth. Gilded covertitle and large gilded scenery at tail, gilded decorative spine. (xvi), 342pp. mounted frontispiece, 45 captioned monochrome plates, many monochrome illustrations in text, drawn by author and Edwin A. Abbey, largely illustrating common dutch females and males in local traditional dres and occupational clothing, other illustrations of topographical nature, list of illustrations, dedication, table of contents. Account of a sightseeing tour through Holland at the end of the nineteenth century, with observations and descriptions of remarkable villages and cities as Haarlem, Saandam, Marken and Onnikendam (fishing villages), Alkmaar, Hoorn, Scheveningen (sea resort), Domburg (and the Dikes)Katwijck-Without (sea resort and fishing village) and Katwijck-Within, and so forth. Very good untrimmed copy in original publ. cloth. (name of previous owner on f.e.p., final pate browned).

Keywords: journey travel holland history regional dress occupations topography visits nineteenthcentury 19thc sightseeing history heritage