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Wanderings in Spain
by Gautier, Theophile
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First English edition. Ingram Cooke and Co. London. 1853. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, Engraved title, Title, v, (3), 308pp. (4) Publisher's catalogue. 6 engraved plates. Numerous text engravings. Publisher's catalogues to yellow endpapers. Original embossed decorative cloth, with gilt to spine. Edge chipping and short splits to head and foot of spine. Some spotting and foxing. Inscribed Lizzie to upper margin ffep. Leighton, Son and Hodge, Shoe Lane, London plate to rep.
Historic newspaper clipping tipped in to ffep. "Ghastly Scene at a Bull Fight. A Matador Gored to Death" reporting the death of bull fighter El Manuel Garcia Espartero May 27th, 1894, in Madrid. Hemingway devoted several manuscript pages regarding this bull fighter in his research for "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Undefeated". Killed four years before he was born, Hemingway regrets never having seen him fight.
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) French writer, artist, photographer, Daguerreotypist, and poet, "the flamboyant enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement", regarded highly by Eliot, Joyce, Wilde, James, Gide, Proust, Beaudelaire and Balzac. Chairman of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. "Believing that a country should be visited during its most "characteristic" season, the French writer Théophile Gautier visited Spain during the heat of summer in 1840, eventually publishing his account of the experience as Un Voyage en Espagne in 1845. He carried with him daguerreotype equipment". The Getty Museum Collection holds several of his Daguerrotypes created whilst in Spain.
Thomas Robert Macquoid (1820-1912) RA. Artist and book illustrator. His wife was Katherine Macquoid, the novelist and travel writer.
Historic newspaper clipping tipped in to ffep. "Ghastly Scene at a Bull Fight. A Matador Gored to Death" reporting the death of bull fighter El Manuel Garcia Espartero May 27th, 1894, in Madrid. Hemingway devoted several manuscript pages regarding this bull fighter in his research for "Death in the Afternoon" and "The Undefeated". Killed four years before he was born, Hemingway regrets never having seen him fight.
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) French writer, artist, photographer, Daguerreotypist, and poet, "the flamboyant enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement", regarded highly by Eliot, Joyce, Wilde, James, Gide, Proust, Beaudelaire and Balzac. Chairman of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. "Believing that a country should be visited during its most "characteristic" season, the French writer Théophile Gautier visited Spain during the heat of summer in 1840, eventually publishing his account of the experience as Un Voyage en Espagne in 1845. He carried with him daguerreotype equipment". The Getty Museum Collection holds several of his Daguerrotypes created whilst in Spain.
Thomas Robert Macquoid (1820-1912) RA. Artist and book illustrator. His wife was Katherine Macquoid, the novelist and travel writer.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Haynes Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio750
- Title
- Wanderings in Spain
- Author
- Gautier, Theophile
- Illustrator
- Thomas Robert McQuoid
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ingram, Cooke, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bullfight, Matador, Spain, Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration; Europe; Spain and Portugal;
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About the Seller
Paul Haynes Rare Books
Biblio member since 2016
Hay on Wye, Herefordshire
About Paul Haynes Rare Books
Paul Haynes has been an antiquarian bookseller since 1978. Based in Hay on Wye, he travels worldwide to buy and sell rare and old books. A member of the ABA, ILAB and PBFA. Paul Haynes Rare Books offers both antiquarian and scarce books in all subjects, with something of a bias towards the owner's passion for Travel and Exploration.
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