The Cinque Ports – A Historical And Descriptive Record.
£300.00
Publisher
William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London.
Date
1900.
Synopsis
The history of cinque ports (five ports) which were located on the eastern end of the english channel where the distance to france was the closest. the towns were hastings, romney, hythe, dover and sandwich.
Item Description
First edition. Large 4to. xiv + 413 pp. With Fourteen photogravure plates with printed tissue guards (1 tissue guard missing) and nineteen black and white full page plates and text illustrations by William Hyde. Ford Madox Hueffer was the real name of the well known writer Ford Madox Ford. In the late nineteenth century he was one of the group of writers who settled in and about Rye and the Romney Marsh, Henry James, H.G.Wells and Joseph Conrad are now the most famous. Hueffer's delightful book is this group's only contribution to topographical literature, and a fine book it is, greatly enhanced by William Hyde's brooding illustrations which capture the remote and isolated feel of the marsh countryside. As a portrait of the marsh at the turn of last century is often overlooked. It became scarce as the writer has a large American following and many copies are now overseas.
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