Author: ROLT,L.T.C.
Title: Narrow Boat
Description: London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. BB (Watkins-Pitchford). This is a Good Copy of this Book in green cloth with white title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.The top edge of the front and rear cover has been a little bumped in places.The book has one previous inscription present to the front endpaper.Superbly illustrated by D.J Watkins-Pitchford (BB) with evocative woodcuts and there is one map of Waterways of the Midlands.The contents remain clean internally with just a few foxing spots present to the fore-edge of the book.The book recounts the record of a voyage along the Canal system of the Midlands some 400 miles of it.The works is a profound topographical,cultural and historic work and not just of the boatmen but of the Countryside also.8vo 212pp First Edition 1st Impression [1944]. Good .

Keywords: Canals Engineering Rolt


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