Otley 1823
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Guide book, A Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes, by
Jonathan Otley, 1823, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers' Court,
London, and by John Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland,
8th edn 1849.
The guide book text includes - descriptions of lakes, tarns, waterfalls, rivers, mountains, crags, antiquities, placename elements, etc; general directions for tourists, stages, itineraries; appendices, things to see on the way to or from the area 'for which the author is indebted to the Penny Magazine', notes on botany, geology, meteorology, floating island in Derwent Water, black lead mine at Seathwaite, and a tour to Lonsdale and the Caves. The title page illustration is Scroggs Farm, Loughrigg, where Jonathan Otley was born. The map, outline views and other engravings are recorded separately. |
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| source type:- | Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) | |
| book feature:- | cloth bound & frontispiece (map) & map & title page (p.i) & preface (pp.iii-iv) & contents (pp.v-vii) & table of symbols (p.viii, for the map) & descriptive text (pp.1-133) & appendices (pp.133-212) & illustrations (engravings throughout text) & plates & outline views (engravings) & itineraries & index (pp.213-215) & list of plates (p.216) & advertisements (pp.217-220) | |
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embossed spine
OTLEY'S / GUIDE / TO THE / LAKES |
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printed title page
A / DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE / TO / THE ENGLISH LAKES, / AND ADJACENT / MOUNTAINS : / WITH NOTICES OF / The Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology / OF THE DISTRICT. / BY JONATHAN OTLEY. / EIGHTH EDITION. / TO WHICH IS ADDED, / AN EXCURSION THROUGH LONSDALE TO THE CAVES. / KESWICK : / PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR; / BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & CO., STATIONERS' COURT, LONDON / AND JOHN FOSTER, KIRKBY LONSDALE. / 1849. |
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printed p.216
LIST OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. / Most of the following Illustrations are from Accurate drawings by Mr. BINNS, Portrait Painter, Halifax; and they are all engraved by Mr. JEWITT, of Headington, Oxford. |
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| wxh:- | 10.5x18.5cm | |
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