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Full Cloth. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Frank Brangwyn (illustratore). Full organge cloth with blind stamped decorated black illustratration on front board and black lettering on spine. The cloth is in good condition but is soiled giving it a somewhat mottled appearance. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. Illustrated endpages. Illustrated with twelve mounted full-page color plates and numerous small black-and-white drawings by Frank Brangwyn. Kinglake's journey through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine was undertaken in 1835 and first published in 1844, making him famous. Minor bump to upper corner of front board. Overall GOOD MINUS condition. Alexander William Kinglake (August 5, 1809 - January 2, 1891) was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College and Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life. His first literary venture had been Eothen, a very popular work of Eastern travel, published in 1844; but his magnum opus was his Invasion of the Crimea, in 8 volumes, published from 1863 to 1887, one of the most effective works of its class. It has been accused of being too favourable to Lord Raglan, and unduly hostile to Napoleon III, for whom the author had an extreme aversion. UncleAndy Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.