April 12, 2024
RARE 1923 SCOTLAND ENGLAND UK ILLUSTRATED COLOR PRINTS JOHN L. STODDARD
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OFFERED HERE is the 1923 volume of John L. Stoddard's travels focusing on Scotland and England, the United Kingdom. Published by George L. Shuman & Co., Chicago and Boston. 9x6 inches, bound in embossed leather patterned cloth. 336 pages. Very good condition.Stoddard began traveling around the world in 1874 and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his experiences into a series of popular lectures delivered throughout North America. These lectures were periodically published in book form as John L. Stoddard's Lectures and eventually numbered 10 volumes and five supplements (1897-1898). In 1901, Stoddard published a book on Gibraltar. The books include numerous illustrations derived from the immense catalog of photographs taken by Stoddard, and cover every subject, from art and architecture, to archaeology and natural history. The books were immensely popular in their day and many copies still survive. Later in life, Stoddard also published poetry, as well as books on religious subjects.Brought up a Protestant, Stoddard was an agnostic for more than 30 years before converting with his wife to Roman Catholicism. In 1922 he published Rebuilding a Lost Faith, a famous work of apologetics which is still in print.The Main Street of Gibraltar - illustrated his 1901 book.[4] Stoddard was a proponent of the restoration of the
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