Author: Louisa Stuart Costello
Title: A Summer Amongst the Bocages and the Vines
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1840 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition of Louisa Stuart Costello's account of a summer spent journeying through France. The two volume first edition of this travel work from Anglo-Irish writer Louisa Stuart Costello.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, a number of vignette illustrations, and two further plates. Collated, complete. Costello lived in Paris and was a prolific writer on subjects ranging from travel, art and literature.In this work, she provides an account of time spent in the Loire, Nantes, St. Malo, Bretagne, Chambord and Paris. She describes the literature and poets associated with these regions, and encounters churches, cathedrals and castles. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, and a touch of discolouration to back strips. Rear hinge of volume II strained and a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to frontispieces, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: france Louisa Stuart Costello Specimens of the Early Poetry of France The Maid of the Cyprus Isle Louisa Stuart Costello Not Stated
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Title: A Summer Amongst the Bocages and the Vines
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1840 . First edition. Cloth. The two volume first edition of Louisa Stuart Costello's account of a summer spent journeying through France. The two volume first edition of this travel work from Anglo-Irish writer Louisa Stuart Costello.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, a number of vignette illustrations, and two further plates. Collated, complete. Costello lived in Paris and was a prolific writer on subjects ranging from travel, art and literature.In this work, she provides an account of time spent in the Loire, Nantes, St. Malo, Bretagne, Chambord and Paris. She describes the literature and poets associated with these regions, and encounters churches, cathedrals and castles. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, and a touch of discolouration to back strips. Rear hinge of volume II strained and a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to frontispieces, with pages otherwise generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: france Louisa Stuart Costello Specimens of the Early Poetry of France The Maid of the Cyprus Isle Louisa Stuart Costello Not Stated
Price: GBP 250.00 = appr. US$ 357.00 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 885F25
- Book number: 885F25
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