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Cornwall & elsewhere.- A Tour to the Land's End in Cornwall during part of the Summer 1776, manuscript, title and 147pp. (including 8pp. index) excluding blanks, 2 pen and ink and pencil drawings of St. Michael's Mount and Bodmin Moor (folding), slightly browned, corners worn, upper joint splitting but holding, gilt spine, rubbed, remains of red morocco label, 8vo, 1776.

⁂ A handsome contemporary unpublished fair copy of fifteen letters sent by an anonymous traveller to a friend. Near Bristol, he reports on the banks of the Avon Gorge, "which is here bounded on each side with high, rough craggy Rocks that are in some places above 200 feet high projecting in an astonishing manner...." In the Mendip Hills he visits Wookey Hole, "the regions of darkness". In Cornwall he inspects the process of tin-mining, describes the mines, the smelting works, and the "place of Coinage" where "blocks [of tin] are weighed & mark'd by the Kings Officers, who collect Forty shillings for every thousand... ." He makes observations of the poverty of Cornwall with villages full of beggars. On the journey back to London he visits Weymouth and Bath. He meets a maid at an inn in Bridgwater, "a pretty little Brunette ... she has a bewitching Simplicity and an Eye where Whim & Sense, Seriousness & Nonsense were... blended... ." At Wilton House he views the famous collection of pictures, especially Van Dyke's portrait of the Earl of Pembroke and family.

Lot 153

Cornwall.- Tour to the Land's End in Cornwall during part of the Summer 1776, manuscript, title and 147pp., 2 pen and ink drawings of St. Michael's Mount and Bodmin Moor, slightly browned, corners worn, upper joint splitting but holding, gilt spin e, rubbed, remains of red moro0cco label, 8vo, 1776.  

Hammer Price: £1,700

Description

Cornwall & elsewhere.- A Tour to the Land's End in Cornwall during part of the Summer 1776, manuscript, title and 147pp. (including 8pp. index) excluding blanks, 2 pen and ink and pencil drawings of St. Michael's Mount and Bodmin Moor (folding), slightly browned, corners worn, upper joint splitting but holding, gilt spine, rubbed, remains of red morocco label, 8vo, 1776.

⁂ A handsome contemporary unpublished fair copy of fifteen letters sent by an anonymous traveller to a friend. Near Bristol, he reports on the banks of the Avon Gorge, "which is here bounded on each side with high, rough craggy Rocks that are in some places above 200 feet high projecting in an astonishing manner...." In the Mendip Hills he visits Wookey Hole, "the regions of darkness". In Cornwall he inspects the process of tin-mining, describes the mines, the smelting works, and the "place of Coinage" where "blocks [of tin] are weighed & mark'd by the Kings Officers, who collect Forty shillings for every thousand... ." He makes observations of the poverty of Cornwall with villages full of beggars. On the journey back to London he visits Weymouth and Bath. He meets a maid at an inn in Bridgwater, "a pretty little Brunette ... she has a bewitching Simplicity and an Eye where Whim & Sense, Seriousness & Nonsense were... blended... ." At Wilton House he views the famous collection of pictures, especially Van Dyke's portrait of the Earl of Pembroke and family.

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