A Hand - Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home. Describing the Country and Cities, The Natives and Their Manners; The Antiquities, Religion, Legends, Fine Arts, Literature, Sports, and Gastronomy: With Notices on Spanish History. Part I. Containing Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, and Estremadura. Part II. Containing Leon, Gallicia, The Asturias, The Castiles (Old and New), The Basque Provinces, Arragon, The Pyrenees, and Navarre. With Travelling Maps and a Copious Index.

FORD, Richard.

Published by LONDON: John Murray. 1845.

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2 Vols. 8vo. Lomos elegantementes renovados en piel con nervios y tejuelo; conservando los planos de tela original. Los mapas entelados de época. Vol I xii, 556 pp; mapa plegado: `KINGDOM / OF / ANDALUCIA / Los Cuatro Reinos de Andalucia / or / The Kingdoms of Seville, Cordova, Jaen & Granada. / Based on the Map of / Captn. M.Rochford Scot.' 26.0 x 39.5 cms. Vol II vi; 557 - 1064 pp (pp.673 - 696 reemplazadas de manera experta de otro ejemplar.) The Handbook Advertiser, 24 pp anuncios impresos en papel azul; mapa plegado en sobre en guardas traseras 54.3 x 67.8 cms. 'TRAVELLING MAP / OF / SPAIN / TO ACCOMPANY THE HANDBOOK / FOR TRAVELLERS' (al pie:) Published by John Murray Albemarle Street London July 12th 1845. Engraved by J. & C.Walker. PRIMERA EDICION de la obra maestra de Richard Ford. Anuncios en las guardas con fecha de Junio (1845), y 1 Mayo 1845 en la 'Handbook Advertiser' (impreso en páginas azules en Vol II.) Insertado suelto: una carta autógrafa de Brinsley Ford (nieto del autor) comentando sobre la escasez de ejemplares en el mercado en 1960. Una de contadísimas guías que merece mención en PMM (Printing and the Mind of Man). Completa con la sección en papel azul The Handbook Advertiser que lleva fecha de 1 May 1845. Al final del prólogo, un apéndice fechado 19 de Julio, avisa que se puede completar el viaje de Londres - Madrid en seis días. 'Primera y más estimada edición de esta notable obra.' Palau. 'En cuanto obra de un solo hombre no iba a tener comparación, y es improbable que sea nunca superado.' Robertson. 'Possibly the most famous of the long Murray series was Richard Ford's Handbook for Spain , a literary work in its own right.' PMM 'Amongst the best books of travel, humour and history, social and literary, political and artistic, in the English language.' William Stirling Maxwell - Miscellaneous Essays. 'The first real guidebook to Spain in English.' Sillitoe p.135 Famoso por los 'latigazos de su lengua,' todavía se lee con agrado. Ford, en Madrid, encontró el vino de Valdepeñas casi venenoso, aunque bien potable en Valdepeñas mismo. describe la pobreza en Manzanares donde 'the men get browner and poorer, the women more ugly. the rare stocking is made without feet, an emblem of the Spanish purse, open and containing nothing.' (Vol I p.309) Habla mal de los Gallegos: 'The Portuguese modestly contend that God first made men i.e. the Portuguese, then Galicians, or slaves to wait on them. These white n*****s frequently wear wooden shoes. another proof of their being only fit to be beasts of burden.' (Vol II p.617) Lister 176. Printing and the Mind of Man 302. Robertson (1975) pp.237 - 265 y 305 - 317. Alberich 1060. Farinelli III p.317. cf.Foulché-Delbosc 415. Palau 93 498. Wildenstein pp.80 - 83. Santos Madrazo pp.813 - 814.

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• Title: A Hand - Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home. Describing the Country and Cities, The Natives and Their Manners; The Antiquities, Religion, Legends, Fine Arts, Literature, Sports, and Gastronomy: With Notices on Spanish History. Part I. Containing Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, and Estremadura. Part II. Containing Leon, Gallicia, The Asturias, The Castiles (Old and New), The Basque Provinces, Arragon, The Pyrenees, and Navarre. With Travelling Maps and a...
• Publisher: LONDON: John Murray. 1845.
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition