A Week in The Isles of Scilly, With Additions and Corrections

Leonard H. Courtney

Published by Lake & Lake, Ltd., Truro, 1897

About this Item

A very scarce work concerning the travels of the radical British politician Leonard Henry Courtney in the Isles of Scilly, with folding maps. A very scarce work rebound in a cloth binding with renewed end papers. Illustrated with four plates and two folding maps, one of the Scilly Isles and the other, in colour, of Penzance and the Land's End District. Collated, complete.Leonard Henry Courtney, the first and last Baron Courtney of Penwith (1832-1918), was an academic and a radical British politician. He is notable for his support of proportional representation in Parliament.This lovely and very scarce little book contains his travel notes from his trip around the Isles of Scilly. Courtney was born in Penzance, Cornwall, and lived in Cornwall for much of his life, adding a personal touch to this trip to the archipelago so close to Penzance.From the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey. William Foyle was the co-founder of Foyles bookshop, founding the leading bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex, which became home to his library, one the largest private libraries in England.Six pages of advertisements. Rebound in a cloth binding with renewed end papers. Externally, bright and generally smart, with small marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Insect damage to the last two pages, not affecting the text. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Week in The Isles of Scilly, With Additions and Corrections
• Publisher: Lake & Lake, Ltd., Truro
• Publication Date: 1897
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Not Stated
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • British Topography