Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales;

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1st ed, 1837, VG, 48 pls. In contemporary maroon morocco, some blind tooling, gilt coat of arms to upper & lower covers, corners and edges bumped and worn very lightly. Spine, edges bumped, gilt tooling and title, faded slightly. Internally, half title, frontis, additional engraved title page, [16], 268 pp, [2], 48 pls and maps, as called for, yellow endpages, bookplate to fpd (Arne eld Sandstrom), printed by Wrightson and Webb, New Street, Birmingham, a.e.g. A very nice copy, all clean & tight with a lovely set of clean plates. (Graesse 162. Lowndes 2127). Roscoe, writer and translator, whose nine annual contributions (each a solid volume) to the Landscape Annual (1830-38) were most extensively devoted to Italy and Spain, but he also produced books on Wales (1837-8), Windsor Castle (1838), and English railway companies (1839). See ODNB.