Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographs.
by BETJEMAN**, JOHN and ROWSE**, A. L:
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0713428155
- ISBN 13
- 9780713428155
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About This Item
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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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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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
- 1
- 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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