A Concise Description of the English Lakes, and Adjacent Mountains

Published by By the Author; Simpkin and Marshall; Arthur Foster, Keswick, 1837

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The sixth edition of Jonathan Otley's informative guide to the Lake District and surrounding mountains. The sixth edition of this work, which was first published in 1823.Illustrated with a partially coloured folding map frontispiece.Otley includes information for tourists, and discussions of botany, minerology, geology and meteorology, with discussion of the floating island in Derwent lake, and of the black-lead mine on Borrowdale.Pencil inscription to rear free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Significant losses to paper spine label. Bumping and minor losses of cloth to back strip head and tail. Light cockling to rear board. Rear hinge strained, and somewhat tenderly held to the head. Pencil inscription to rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good.

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Title
A Concise Description of the English Lakes, and Adjacent Mountains
Author
Jonathan Otley
Publisher
By the Author; Simpkin and Marshall; Arthur Foster, Keswick
Publication year
1837
Condition
Good
Book Type
book
Binding
Cloth
Illustrator
Not Stated
Item weight
0.5 kilograms
Dimensions
7.5" by 5"

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