Buy this book on-line BETJEMAN**, JOHN and ROWSE**, A. L: : Victorian and Edwardian CORNWALL from old photographsLONDON.B.T. BATSFORD Ltd,1974. ISBN 0713428155.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. Owner ink name to lower corner of front free endpaper and an unsued brown+white illustrated bookplate pasted to front pastedown with signed artwork by Ann R Thomas,partially hid behind front inner flap of dw/dj,and a price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - both head+foot of spine/ backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Concomitant areas internally,of dw/dj,affected with minimal water/fluid stains,visible internally only and tiny closed snicks at top+lower corner tips of dw/dj.Bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original speckled khaki board with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine and clean plain white endpapers.Top edges faintly and sporadically spotted,fore-edges without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,128pp [unpaginated] includes,b/w photographic frntis,title page,contents list/table,acknowledgements,an introduction and commentaries by A. L. Rowse,10 sections /chapters with profuse (160) contemporary, monochrome photographs throughout with explanatory text/captions.
Sir John Betjeman and Dr A.L. Rowse are the two most eminent living Cornishmen - the one by adoption,the other by birth.
Each has written with the greatest distinction about the Duchy: their collaboration here has produced a work of exceptional quality.Sir John's discriminating eye has selected a range of photographs which portrays Cornwall from the middle of the last century to the outbreak of WW1.
A.L. Rowse comments on each of these old photographs with the inside knowledge of the native and the scholarship of a pre-eminent historian.Additionally,Dr Rowse contributes both a general Introduction to the book and a scene-setting preamble to its individual sections; and there is a selection of extracts from the many poems by the Laureate which have Cornish themes.
The Isles of Scilly as well as mainland Cornwall are covered.
Individual sections are on: The North Coast; The South Coast; Fishing,Wrecks and Lifeboats; Inland; Farming and Mining; Occupations and Livelihoods; Schools, Recreations,Law and Order; Railways and Royal Visits; Character and Entertainments; and the Isles of Scilly.
The focus of the 160 pictures is on people as much on places.
Sometimes these people are such famous ones as R S Hawker and Sabine Baring-Gould, sometimes they may be anonymous fishermen or farmers.In either case they vividly reflect the individuality which is so much part of the Cornish character.
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UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - both head+foot of spine /backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original speckled khaki boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine and clean plain white endpapers.Top edges faintly and sporadically spotted,fore- edges without blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? UK, slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,128pp [unpaginated] includes,b/w photographic frntis,title page,contents list/table, acknowledgements,an introduction and commentaries by A. L. Rowse,10 sections/ chapters with profuse (160) contemporary, monochrome photographs throughout with explanatory text/captions.
Sir John Betjeman and Dr A.L. Rowse are the two most eminent living Cornishmen - the one by adoption,the other by birth.
Each has written with the greatest distinction about the Duchy: their collaboration here has produced a work of exceptional quality.Sir John's discriminating eye has selected a range of photographs which portrays Cornwall from the middle of the last century to the outbreak of WW1.
A.L. Rowse comments on each of these old photographs with the inside knowledge of the native and the scholarship of a pre-eminent historian.Additionally,Dr Rowse contributes both a general Introduction to the book and a scene-setting preamble to its individual sections; and there is a selection of extracts from the many poems by the Laureate which have Cornish themes.
The Isles of Scilly as well as mainland Cornwall are covered.
Individual sections are on: The North Coast; The South Coast; Fishing,Wrecks and Lifeboats; Inland; Farming and Mining; Occupations and Livelihoods; Schools, Recreations,Law and Order; Railways and Royal Visits; Character and Entertainments; and the Isles of Scilly.
The focus of the 160 pictures is on people as much on places.
Sometimes these people are such famous ones as R S Hawker and Sabine
Baring-Gould,sometimes they may be anonymous fishermen or farmers.In either case they vividly reflect the
individuality which is so much part of the Cornish character.
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