Author: A Walking Gentleman (Thomas Colley Grattan)
Title: High-Ways and by-Ways; or Tales of the Roadside: Picked Up in the French Provinces
Description: London, Printed for G. and W. Whittaker, 1824-5. First edition. Leather. A complete uniformly bound collection of the first and second series of Thomas Gratton's narration of his continental wanderings, the fourth edition of the first series, and first edition of the second. A collection of five volumes, comprised of the complete fourth edition of the first series and the complete first edition of the second series of Thomas Coley Grattan's High-Ways and By-Ways. A third series was also published in 1827. This work recollects the author's wanderings through the continent, and is known as his best work, which made him widely known in England and on the continent, and was reprinted several times. Lacking the half title. In a half calf binding over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine. Externally smart with some shelf wear and a minor rubbing to the boards and spine, and some bumping to the extremities as well as a minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Each volume has lost the spine title label, that of vol. I has been reserved and loosely inserted in the volume. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally bright and clean throughout, with some minor faint spotting to the occasional leaf, affecting the endpapers and first and last few leaves particularly. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: first editions highways and byways travel highways and byways None
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Title: High-Ways and by-Ways; or Tales of the Roadside: Picked Up in the French Provinces
Description: London, Printed for G. and W. Whittaker, 1824-5. First edition. Leather. A complete uniformly bound collection of the first and second series of Thomas Gratton's narration of his continental wanderings, the fourth edition of the first series, and first edition of the second. A collection of five volumes, comprised of the complete fourth edition of the first series and the complete first edition of the second series of Thomas Coley Grattan's High-Ways and By-Ways. A third series was also published in 1827. This work recollects the author's wanderings through the continent, and is known as his best work, which made him widely known in England and on the continent, and was reprinted several times. Lacking the half title. In a half calf binding over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine. Externally smart with some shelf wear and a minor rubbing to the boards and spine, and some bumping to the extremities as well as a minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Each volume has lost the spine title label, that of vol. I has been reserved and loosely inserted in the volume. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally bright and clean throughout, with some minor faint spotting to the occasional leaf, affecting the endpapers and first and last few leaves particularly. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: first editions highways and byways travel highways and byways None
Price: GBP 170.00 = appr. US$ 242.76 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 785A32
- Book number: 785A32
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