£2,125
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 630
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
each with considered commentary: "Weston Super Mare." 'I am not geographical enough to remember, or indeed ever have heard the locality of this seemingly pleasant and sequestered little Watering place. I take it to be somewhere in Devonshire, and wherever it is, should like to pass six weeks of the dog days in the thatched cottage to the right, reading Shakespeare and eating John Dories', Warwick Castle 'the most enviable residence in the whole world', Box Tunnel at Bath 'these Railway tunnels equal, if they do not surpass, the most stupendous memorials of antiquity!'; Cheltenham Propitiatory College 'no smack of antiquity. An F.S.A. should have known much better how to imitate the stile of a middle age! There is too much lightness of pediment, too much window, too much gingerbread turretting!', c. 360 pages, lacking first 4 pages, half calf, rubbed, lacks spine, [c.1850]