WANDERINGS in WESSEX; An Exploration of the Southern, Realm from Itchen to Otter / With 12 Full-page Drawings by M.M. Vigers / And Over One Hundred Illustrations in The Text By The Author / Map and Plans
An Exploration of the Southern, Realm from Itchen to Otter: Robert Scott, N.D. [c.1922]. Edric Homes; M.M. Vigers. First Edition: from "The English Countryside" Series. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), publisher's original green buckram with gilt lettering and tudor roses on spine, profusely illustrated with 12 full-page drawings by M.M. Vigers and more than 100 illustrations by the author-illustrator Edric Homes, xiii, [xiv:blank] +15-380 pages with Index + [4] Adverts. Very Good + / None. Item #2791
ISBN: 9780656037612
Tight, bright, solid copy with unfoxed bright photographic and reproductions of engraved illustrations. Top and bottom of spine ends neatly abraided and corners worn. (Sometimes reprinted for as much as $69.)
A tour through many towns & villages of THOMAS HARDY COUNTRY: southern Hampshire, Dorset & east Devonshire, with a brief chapter on North Hampshire & the border of Berkshire. This is a very appealing illustrated guide to the English countryside which was published after World War I, as people returned to the beauties of an England--now, increasingly lost.
Price: $40.00