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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition thus. Spine a trifle sunned. Book comes in its original slipcase. Illustrator: Anne Hayward. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Great Britain; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 21160. Anne Hayward (illustratore).…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. FOLIO SOCIETY, very good hardbound book in protective, decorative cardboard slipcover. Third printing, 1988. VERY GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Edited and with an Introduction by Donald Adamson. A heavy book of 505pp, marbled paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine. B + w engravings by Anne Hayward. Complete slipcase. A very clean copy. Colonel Byng's journals of his tours on horseback round England and Wales in the 1780s and 1790s. Anne Hayward (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Includes slipcase.

First printing. Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with marbled boards and gilt spine-titling on brown labels; 505pp., top edge dyed dark brown, with maps, an engraved monochrome frontispiece and many decorations likewise. Mild wear; spotting to the text block edges; spine sunned. Near fine in a like slipcase. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "An absolute delight. This book sits firmly in my Top Ten All Time Favourites list and probably occupies a spot in the top 5 - a fluid little list. The Folio Society edition is quite beautiful and Byng's late 18th c. diaries of his travels are greatly enhanced by Anne Hayward's engravings. Full of wonderful (and often amusingly cranky) detail ranging over the price of feed for his horse, the weather as he rode or walked, precisely what he ate at each stop, and of course his opinion on the merit of whatever vista or grand structure he was viewing. Completely fascinating and detailed look at the people who inhabited his world and what daily life was like for many of them. I've re-read this book several times and will no doubt do so again. This edition includes maps of each leg of his travels which is a great bonus, particularly for readers who are not UK residents." - online review.…