Author: John Latouche [Oswald Crawford]
Title: Travels in Portugal
Description: London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1875 . Cloth. The second edition of this illustrated account of an Englishman's travels in Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The second edition of this travelogue from John Latouche, the pseudonym of John Crawford.With five illustrated plates, each protected by the original tissue guard, from T. Sotheran Estcourt. Collated, complete.The author's preface explains that this work is 'nothing more than notes - mental notes, for I travelled without any design of future publications, and kept no single written memorandum of what I did or saw&apos.From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty of the Edwardian period. Impeccably connected, Pleydell-Bouverie was also the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, and rumoured to be a lover of King Edward VIII. A sparkling figure of fashionable society, her friends included Nancy Mitford, Coco Chanel, Winston Churchill, and Fred Astaire.This work is from the sale of Pleydell-Bouverie"s library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire. She purchased the home in 1940, redesigning the interior and amassing an impressive library, featuring many examples of her own bookbinding. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail. Hinges starting, with boards held to text block by cords only. Internally, binding strained. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: T. Sotheran Estcourt. Good .

Keywords: Portugal Oswald Crawford Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie Oswald Crawford T. Sotheran Estcourt


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