Beggars on Horseback by Martin Ross, E. O. Somerville, Jean Cunninghame Graham (Foreword) - 2004-08-08

Alpha Edition, 2021. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No edition remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Heavy cracking to gutters and hinges. Missing front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild loss to ends. Book has forward lean. Pen to spine.

Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Near Fine slipcase. E. OE. Sommerville. Small octavo, 7.75 in. x 5.25 in., pp. vi, 186, 1-32 (advertising). Light blue cloth boards with black title and two horse riders to cover; gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities and sunning to spine. Bottom corners nudged; small dent to base of front board. Slight spine lean. Front free endpaper partially detached at hinge. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Recent dark blue cloth-covered slipcase. Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884,… Read More

Edinburgh & London 1895 Blackwood. Sm.8vo., 186pp., illustrated by Edith Somerville, ads, illustrated boards. Owner signed on half title. VG, light soiling. .

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SOMERVILLE E. CE. VG, 1st ed, 1895 . Publishers light blue printed cloth, faded at edges, corner rubbed, edges lightly worn. Spine, faded, gilt titles, edges bumped. Internally, half title, [5], (vi) only, [1], 2-186 pp, numerous illustrations within text, green endpapers, evidence of book plate removal to fpd. (188*125 mm). Somerville, writer and artist, who in the 1890s, trading on her excellent connections in the world of journalism, was commissioned to write travel books, touring Connemara in 1890 for the Lady's Pictorial, and Wales and Denmark in 1893. See ODNB for a full Bio of both authors. Martin, Violet Florence [pseud. Martin Ross], novelist.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". E. OE Somerville. The first edition of this unconventional work of travel writing by Martin Ross and E. OE Somerville. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. The first edition, first impression, limited to 1575 copies. Profusely illustrated with thirty one monochrome illustrations by Somerville. Martin Ross and E. OE, Somerville (Violet Martin and Edith Œnone Somerville) were tasked with writing a travel work depicting Wales as a tourist destination. Central to the work is the author's aversion to the travel industry and marketing Wales as a destination for tourism making the work truly a unique work of 'anti-travel'. In the original green cloth binding. Externally smart with shelfwear to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Marks and slight sunning to the boards and spine. Front hinge slightly strained but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SOMERVILLE CE. VG, 1st ed, complete, 1895. Original light blue cloth, tips bumped very slightly, black ink titles and image. Spine, faded, with gilt titles, edges lightly bumped. Internally, blue endpapers, no inscriptions, a little light browning & foxing to edges, half title present, (vi), 186 pp, numerous illustrations, [32] adverts. Housed in a blue cloth drop box, title in gilt to spine, which has faded as have the box edges. Somerville, writer and artist, who in the 1890s, trading on her excellent connections in the world of journalism, was commissioned to write travel books, touring Connemara in 1890 for the Lady's Pictorial, and Wales and Denmark in 1893. See ODNB for a full Bio of both authors. (192*130 mm). Martin, Violet Florence [pseud. Martin Ross], novelist.

Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood & Sons, 1895. First edition. "Amateur-gipsy tours ... iron endurance, the temper of Mark Tapley, and the will to survive of Robinson Crusoe" (Somerville). "A sense of humour is one of the essentials for any tour, as necessary as a knapsack, or a map, and as both writers possess a keen perception of the ludicrous, their account of their jouneyings on ponyback through the northern parts of the Principality is most amusing and entertaining" (The Gentlewoman, 17th August 1895). Crown 8vo (193 x 124mm). vi,186 + 32pp advertisements dated June 1895 - the month of publication. Illustrations by Somerville. Bound in an elegant recent half blue morocco, banded and gilt; original cloth upper cover and spine preserved at rear (the primary binding, with the publishers' name given in full at foot of spine); a few minor marks and spots, but a very good copy of an uncommon title. Neat ownership inscription.

London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First edition, one of 1575. Illustrations by E. Œ. Somerville. vi, 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark blue linen. Carter Variant B. Nice copy. First edition, one of 1575. Illustrations by E. Œ. Somerville. vi, 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hudson, pp.14-15; Carter Binding Variants 1820-1900; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 341