An Excursion from Sidmouth to Chester, in the summer of 1803. (2 vol bound as 1)

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VG, 1st ed, 1805, 1 pl. In modern, to style half speckled leather with green marbled boards, blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, blind tooling, titles in gilt to red and green leather labels. Internally, new cream endpapers, binder stamp at base of fpd (Delrue), Part 1, half title and frontis present, (viii), 232 pp, 1 pl (dated 1806). Part 2, half title present, [2], (iv), 233-462, [1] adverts, printed by C Whittingham, Dean Street, London, text block edges sprinkled red. (148*91 mm). (Lowndes 332). Title continues: In a series of letters to a Lady. Including sketches of the Principal Towns and Villages... Butcher, Edmund, Unitarian minister and author, who published two topographical works, A Picture of Sidmouth, which ran to a fourth edition (1830), and An Excursion from Sidmouth to Chester in the Summer of 1803 (2 vols., 1805). His style was described as 'simple and familiar; the sentences short and sometimes striking' (Monthly Repository, 309). See ODNB. Title continues: In the Counties of Devon, Somerset, Gloucester, Monmouth, Hereford, Salop, Derby, Stafford, Warwick and Worcester. Interspersed with biographical anecdotes and incidental remarks, particularly intended for the information and amusement of the rising generation.