£800
Articles on Cornwall and Devon Views of Cornwall and Devon and Notices of St Michael's Mount & Dartmoor, 1895 As titled in the manuscript, with some extracted from the ‘’Illustrated English Magazine’’. Stout 4to full leather, hard-cover, contemporary pebble-grained bevelled morocco, all edged gilt, fine condition. This is a ‘’grangerised copy extra-illustrated’’ with the addition of maps and many prints of Cornwall and Devon. Lithographs, copper and steel engravings, with some quite unusual prints. The Cornwall section is based around Mrs Craik's 'An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall', published 1884. The Devon section includes, 'Among the Western Song-men' by S. Baring - Gould. Several scarce maps, including: Van Den Keere, Cornwaile (1672); Robert Morden, Cornwall (1695); Scilly I (not identified, circa 17th century); Cruchley’s County Map of Cornwall; Van Den Keere, Devonshire (1672); Chart of the English Channel, also a chart of Plymouth Sound(1782); Cruchley’s map of Devon. Cornwall has 7 maps and 54 plates; Devon has 6 maps and 51 plates. This collection has been put together carefully and is unusual and scarce.
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