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Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographs.

Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographs.

Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographs.
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Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographs.

by BETJEMAN**, JOHN and ROWSE**, A. L:

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ISBN 10
0713428155
ISBN 13
9780713428155
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UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Bright,crisp,unblemished, sharp-cornered,publisher;s original speckled khaki board with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine and clean plain white endpapers.Top edges faintly and sporadically spotted,fore- edges without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,128pp [unpaginated] includes,b/w photographic frntis,title page,contents list/table,acknowledgements, an introduction and commentaries by A. L. Rowse,10 sections/chapters with profuse (160) contemporary, monochrome photographs throughout with explanatory text/captions.
Sir John Betjeman and Dr A.L. Rowse are the two most eminent living Cornishmen - the one by adoption,the other by birth.
Each has written with the greatest distinction about the Duchy: their collaboration here has produced a work of exceptional quality.Sir John's discriminating eye has selected a range of photographs which portrays Cornwall from the middle of the last century to the outbreak of WW1.
A.L. Rowse comments on each of these old photographs with the inside knowledge of the native and the scholarship of a pre-eminent historian.Additionally,Dr Rowse contributes both a general Introduction to the book and a scene-setting preamble to its individual sections; and there is a selection of extracts from the many poems by the Laureate which have Cornish themes.
The Isles of Scilly as well as mainland Cornwall are covered.
Individual sections are on: The North Coast; The South Coast; Fishing,Wrecks and Lifeboats; Inland; Farming and Mining; Occupations and Livelihoods; Schools, Recreations,Law and Order; Railways and Royal Visits; Character and Entertainments; and the Isles of Scilly.
The focus of the 160 pictures is on people as much on places.
Sometimes these people are such famous ones as R S Hawker and Sabine Baring-Gould,sometimes they may be anonymous fishermen or farmers.In either case they vividly reflect the
individuality which is so much part of the Cornish character.
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Title
Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographs.
Author
BETJEMAN**, JOHN and ROWSE**, A. L:
Illustrator
illus with historical,contemporary b/w photographs.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0713428155
ISBN 13
9780713428155
Publisher
LONDON.B.T. BATSFORD Ltd,1974.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
April 5, 1990
Keywords
q52.GENERAL.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0713428155.Cornwall_Victorian_Edwardian photographs_photography.Cornish_people_life_fishing_farming_mining_wrecks_lifeboats_schools_railways_law and order.Isles of Scilly.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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