VIEWS A-FOOT or EUROPE SEEN with KNAPSACK & STAFF by BAYARD TAYLOR/ITALY/ 1884

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VIEWS A-FOOT or EUROPE SEEN with KNAPSACK & STAFF by BAYARD TAYLOR/ITALY/ 1884 VIEWS A-FOOT, OR EUROPE SEEN WITH KNAPSACK AND STAFF. BY BAYARD TAYLOR. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884. Kennett Edition, Revised. Very Scarce. A solid 19th century edition of this large and thick book, with many illustrations. this book is solid and complete and it retains the original binding. Published nearly 130 years ago, this book is now out of print and quite scarce. Such a nice edition is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Preface: "This work was first published in December, 1846, six months after my return from Europe...Several editions were sold and in August, 1848, I added to the eighth edition a chapter containing some practical information for pedestrians, in answer to numerous letters from young men who desired to follow my example...I did not anticipate that the work would become permanently popular. It had fulfilled the object of its publication, and I should have been satisfied had it then gradually passed away from the remembrance of the reading public. Since that time, however, twelve more editions have been sold...I have endeavoured to make no change which should impair that spirit of boyish confidence and enthusiasm, to which alone I must attribute the success of the work. I have not meddled with the language further than to correct occasional violations of taste. My task has been, to omit much that was irrelevant to the story and to my object in telling it, replacing these omissions with personal particulars, which had been withheld through an unnecessary pride...My object is to make this account of my two years' experience more clear and intelligible to the reader-to retain everything that is novel or characteristic, while relieving it of an overplus of mere description, which possesses no general interest...The story of this experience has been, and may still be, useful to others; and I claim for it no further merit than that of truth, without reserve or exaggeration." Contents include: Newfoundland-Off the Hebrides-Liverpool; North coast of Ireland-Return to Port Rush; Dumbarton Rock-Loch Lomond-Inn at Ardcheancrochan; Loch Katrine-Burns Festival; Ride to Edinburgh-Moorland-Thames at night; London-Westminster Abbey; Arrival at Ostend-Bruges; Heidelberg-Charms of Rhine; Remove to Frankfort-Castle of Erbach; Christmas in Germany; Severity of the winter; Plan of our German tour; Town of Munden-Brocken-Walk to Halberstadt; Magdeburg-Dresden; Prague; Bohemia; Vienna-Tomb of Beethoven; Palace of Schonbrunn-Abbey of Melk; Lake of Gmunden-Among the Alps; Munich; Augsburg; Italy; Zurich; Reuss; Milan; Genoa; Florence; Vallombrosa; Slena; Apennines; Rome; Tivoli; Provence; Lyons; Paris; Versailles; Firppr; From Brighton to London; Embarking for home; Farewell; etc. Illustrations include: Off Dover; Loch Lomond; Burns' cottage; Edinburgh; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Palais Justice, Ghent; Mayence; Heidelberg Castle; Freiburg; Zurich Cathedral; Tell's Chapel; Devil's Bridge; Lago Maggiore; Genoa; Leaning Tower of Pisa; Rome: St. Peter's, Vatican and the Coliseum; Marseilles; Paris and the Seine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Large and Thick quarto - sized hardcover book; xx + 411 pages of text and 20 full-page plates. Good condition: a very few scattered underlinings in pencil otherwise no writing or markings in the text; chipping and fraying on title page otherwise no torn or missing pages; no ownership markings; stains on title page and front endpapers and a few introductory pages; mild foxing near front and rear of book; decorative endpapers. Original publisher's hardcover binding with gilt lettering on the spine, light fraying to spinetips and corners, spots on binding, minor bubbling on front board. A solid copy of this scarce item. Please look through my other auction listings- I have listed many scarce and unusual books this week on ebay. Please bid on more than one book, because I will be happy to... read more

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