A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire
by Fenton, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, 1811. First Edition 1st Ed. 4to. [xii] + 587pp. + 75pp. + [viii] Index + [ii]. With 8pp. Port. frontis., engraved title page., 30 engraved plates, folding map. Some light browning, contemporary brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Richard Fenton (1746-1821), topographical writer and poet was born at St. David's Pembrokeshire. A Lawyer by profession he is chiefly remembered for the above work. His books and journals, more tour literature than history, are entertaining reading, being an attractive mixture of accurate reporting and recording interspersed with personal descriptions of scenery and accounts of oral history, local legends, Previous owner name at top of fly leaf. Overall tight and clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012248
- Title
- A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire
- Author
- Fenton, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket - Issued
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longman Hurst Rees & Orme
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1811
- Keywords
- Pembrokeshire, England, Wales
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Britain;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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