Land-Travel and Sea-Faring

by Morley Roberts

$100 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891. 8vo, i-vii , viii, 1 -259 pp. With seven full-page engravings and numerous vignettes by A. D. McCormick. Blue cloth with gilt backstrip and green coated endpapers. Corners bumped, page edges a little browned. Small loss to top margin of p. 129 due to the signature being improperly cut. § First edition. In 1876, travel writer and novelist Morley Roberts 1857-1942 took steerage passage to Australia to work on sheep stations

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