CONTINENTAL TOUR. Manuscript travel journal, 'From London to Antwerp', 1839, in 8 chapters, written in brown ink with 4 full-page and 5 text illustrations in pen-and-ink, one ?after H M Thomson, and one labelled 'from the Glasgow Mirror' (a few spots), 3 volumes (197 x 125mm), contemporary limp olive morocco, titled in gilt, marbled endpapers (light wear to extremities, lower inner hinge of vol. I split).
CONTINENTAL TOUR. Manuscript travel journal, 'From London to Antwerp', 1839, in 8 chapters, written in brown ink with 4 full-page and 5 text illustrations in pen-and-ink, one ?after H M Thomson, and one labelled 'from the Glasgow Mirror' (a few spots), 3 volumes (197 x 125mm), contemporary limp olive morocco, titled in gilt, marbled endpapers (light wear to extremities, lower inner hinge of vol. I split). A detailed and charming travel journal, comprising an account of a woman's tour through France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany from July 1838 to 1839, accompanied by her parents and friend, 'Dr Rogers'. Leaving London on board the steamer Victoria , they travel to Antwerp and Liège, up the Rhine to Wiesbaden, attend a fete at Aix-la-Chapelle, journey back to Liège, visiting Brussels, Ghent, Lille and Paris, the account ending with the journey 'from Amiens to Boulogne'. The diary includes descriptions of cities ('Liege has rather a mean appearance... it is the Birmingham of the Low Countries'), cathedrals, local life and hotels, offering insights into 19th-century travel (such as the 'sad scramble for seats at dinner' on board the steamer, and the 'smuggling douanier' with contraband bottles of eau-de-cologne), with close observations of fellow travellers ('I saw Lady William Paget, she is remarkably handsome and prospers that indescribable air of high breeding, which characterises our nobility'). The skilfull pen-and-ink drawings provide further observations of local life and customs, showing soldiers ('a set of regular lilliputians'), different types of headdress in France and the Low Countries, a nun at prayer, a woman at confession and an open air dance in Flanders.
CONTINENTAL TOUR. Manuscript travel journal, 'From London to Antwerp', 1839, in 8 chapters, written in brown ink with 4 full-page and 5 text illustrations in pen-and-ink, one ?after H M Thomson, and one labelled 'from the Glasgow Mirror' (a few spots), 3 volumes (197 x 125mm), contemporary limp olive morocco, titled in gilt, marbled endpapers (light wear to extremities, lower inner hinge of vol. I split).
CONTINENTAL TOUR. Manuscript travel journal, 'From London to Antwerp', 1839, in 8 chapters, written in brown ink with 4 full-page and 5 text illustrations in pen-and-ink, one ?after H M Thomson, and one labelled 'from the Glasgow Mirror' (a few spots), 3 volumes (197 x 125mm), contemporary limp olive morocco, titled in gilt, marbled endpapers (light wear to extremities, lower inner hinge of vol. I split). A detailed and charming travel journal, comprising an account of a woman's tour through France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany from July 1838 to 1839, accompanied by her parents and friend, 'Dr Rogers'. Leaving London on board the steamer Victoria , they travel to Antwerp and Liège, up the Rhine to Wiesbaden, attend a fete at Aix-la-Chapelle, journey back to Liège, visiting Brussels, Ghent, Lille and Paris, the account ending with the journey 'from Amiens to Boulogne'. The diary includes descriptions of cities ('Liege has rather a mean appearance... it is the Birmingham of the Low Countries'), cathedrals, local life and hotels, offering insights into 19th-century travel (such as the 'sad scramble for seats at dinner' on board the steamer, and the 'smuggling douanier' with contraband bottles of eau-de-cologne), with close observations of fellow travellers ('I saw Lady William Paget, she is remarkably handsome and prospers that indescribable air of high breeding, which characterises our nobility'). The skilfull pen-and-ink drawings provide further observations of local life and customs, showing soldiers ('a set of regular lilliputians'), different types of headdress in France and the Low Countries, a nun at prayer, a woman at confession and an open air dance in Flanders.
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