The Vales of Emmerdale and Buttermere

by After James Baker Pyne

$375 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An evocative image of the Lake District, an area renowned as the cradle of the Romantic Movement in Britain. The Lake District, an area of only some 700 square miles, contains all the main English lakes and is found within the northwestern counties of Cumbria and Lancashire. 'The Lakes' as the area is also known first came to prominence with the rise of the cult of the Picturesque in the second half of the 18th century, but it was Wordsworth, a native of Cumbria, born in

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