A Journal Of An Excursion Round The South-eastern Coast Of England.
£100.00
Publisher
Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, St John's Square,
Place
London
Date
1834
Synopsis
By baker peter smith.
Item Description
Small 8vo. 7 x 4 inches, xii + 152 pp. Includes List of Subscribers. Bound in brown watered silk, with contrasting black morocco spine label, gilt. A little wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. !892 signature of John L. Roget and small portrait sticker on front pastedown Narrative describes a journey by the Royal Sovereign steamer from London to Margate, whence the author walks along the Kent and East Sussex coasts to Brighton. The journal has much of interest to us today, including a detailed description of the construction method employed on the sea wall which protects Romney Marsh. The style is charming: for example he evidently mishears the name of St Margaret's (above Dover) and refers to it as 'Smargetts'. The list of subscribers accounts for 440 copies, so perhaps 500 were printed. This copy is from the library of John Lewis Roget (1828-1908), artist and lexicographer and son of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), of Thesaurus fame, with his signature and stamp-like portrait bookplate. A scarce title. (Smith, Bibliotheca Cantiana, 1837, p. 93.)
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