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Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
Recollections of a tour made in Scotland A.D. 1803.
published Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1874
h x w 195 x 144mm ; text block height 188mm
Red cloth covers, gilt tooled elaborate leaf decoration in bands across bottom and top of front board, black tooled decoration on rear board, central tooled crest in black with the publication houses initials in centre, gilt lettering on spine, publisher details on bottom of spine, black endpapers ; twenty four pages of advertisements at rear of book ; cutting from The Times Literary Supplement, dated Saturday June 27 1942 inserted into rear of book.
Provenance:
Purchase 2004, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the J. Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust, the Friends of the National Libraries, Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly, the Charles Warren Bequest, the Roger and Sarah Bancroft Charitable Trust, the Chris Brasher Trust, John and Sally Barker, John Dobson, and other private donors
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Reference B/358
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