Author: TORR C.
Title: Small Talk at Wreyland. [First, Second and Third Series. Complete set]. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
Description: University Press, Cambridge,, 1918-21-23. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save first volume), on laid paper, with 2 frontispieces and 10 plates, neat signature on front paste-downs, fore-edges browned as always; original boards, oatmeal buckram backs lettered in black, uncut, corners bruised, hinges tender (but all bindings entirely sound) else a very good, clean set of a very scarce work. Torr's classic account of local lore and anecdotes in the area around the village of Lustleigh. This is an above average set albeit showing signs of age and usage. First Series (second impression, 1918, five months after the first edition); Second Series (first edition, 1921); Third Series (first edition, 1923). Complete sets in the original boards are very scarce. Brockett, 72040; Somers Cocks p.55.

Keywords: topography, devonshire, devon, dartmoor, lustleigh, wreyland, torr, c. torr, topography, devonshire, small, talk, wreyland


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