A Week in the Isles of Scilly. This item is unavailable.A Week in the Isles of Scilly

Tinted lithograph frontispiece and three plates, each with tissue guard. First Edition. 8vo. [230 x 145 x 18 mm]. [1]f, v, [v], 199, [1] pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind with the title in gilt on the front, light yellow endleaves, plain edges. (Slight mark on spine). A little light spotting but a very good copy. Neat ink signature of W.[?] Blyth, dated December 3 1850, and errata corrected in pencil. North describes himself as "Chaplain" and the Preface is addressed from St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. He offers six excursions around the islands and adds supplementary chapters on the history and physical features, Sanitary Condition, and Natural History. The lithographs illustrate the light-house in course of erection on Bishop Rock, Abbey Gardens on Tresco, Oliver's Castle and Star Castle and Hugh Town.