COUNTRY SKETCHES FOR CITY DWELLERS
COUNTRY SKETCHES FOR CITY DWELLERS

COUNTRY SKETCHES FOR CITY DWELLERS

(London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908).

FIRST EDITION. A PICTURESQUE JOURNEY THROUGH THE COUNTRY TOWNS OF ENGLAND. The reader enjoys delightful accounts and pictures of many areas such as Surrey, Rydal, and Bolton Abbey.

'Buy my English posies!
Kent and Surrey may;
Violets from the undercliff
Wet with Channel spray;
Cowslips from a Devon combe;
Midland furze a-fire;
Buy my English posies-
And I'll sell your heart's desire!'

by Rudyard Kipling. Item #30608

First Edition. With 16 beautiful full-page colour illustrations by Mrs. Rawnsley. 8vo, publisher's original olive green cloth, lettered and pictorially decorated with floral decorations in gilt and dark-green on the spine and upper cover, t.e.g. ix, 166, 2 pages of ads. A very pleasing and well preserved copy, internally lovely, the binding in quite attractive condition and showing only minimal mellowing or evidence of age.

Price: $125.00