[CORNWALL] A week at the Lizard.

A$30 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

/ by the Rev. C. A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S., author of Botanical Rambles, Flowers of the Field, British Birds in their Haunts, c. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1874]. Small octavo (165 x 110 mm), publisher s brown cloth with black decoration to upper board, spine with gilt-lettered title and black decoration; pp. xvi, 275, [1 ad.]; frontispiece plate, folding map, and numerous lithographed illustrations (several full-page); very clean throughout, an excellent copy. A later nineteenth-century edition of this charming English regional study. First published in 1848, it is as much a natural history guide to the area as it is a travelogue. The Lizard (Cornish: an Lysardh ) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, whose extremity, Lizard Point, is the southernmost point of the British mainland.

• Binding: Hardcover

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