On The Mountain: being the Welsh Experiences of Abraham Black & Jonas White, Esquires, Moralists, Photographers, Fishermen and Botanists

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In contemporary embossed red cloth, gilt climbing equipment emblem, edges rubbed. Re-spined, remains of old laid down, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [5], (vi-vii), [1], [1], 2-262 pp, 2 pls (coloured), with the tipped in errata, a.e.g., 1866 book prize label to ffep. (180*119 mm). (Westwood 211. Allibone 2469). Tugwell also published A Manual of Sea Anemones Commonly Found on the English Coast (1856), which was explicitly addressed to 'amateur ramblers about our English coasts who take a pleasure in noticing every form of beauty which they may encounter in their wanderings' and cited the blessings of sea anemones as their beauty, the ease with which they can be collected, and that 'they may be kept in the drawing room or the study without trouble or annoyance, and may be carried away to our country-houses as a permanent memorial of our visit to the seaside'.