Up the River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford by [ANON]

Up the River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford

A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery

[ANON]

[ANON] Up the River From Westminster to Windsor and Oxford A Descriptive Panorama of Thames Scenery

Waterlow & Sons Ltd., 1879.

First edition. Original red cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover and titled in gilt on the spine. Map of the length of the Thames, in two sections at front and rear, and 140 woodcut engravings in the text. A very good copy, some rubbing to the spine ends and corners and faint white markings to the upper cover. Tape reinforcement to the verso of the folds of the maps.

Scarce. A practical narrative account of a journey on the Thames from central London to Oxford, aimed at a Jerome K. Jerome style traveller (though predating Three Men in a Boat by some ten years). The preface notes that due to the introduction of the Great Western Railway, "the jaded Londoner may at any time be quickly set down at any lovely spot he may select, refresh his eyes and brain amid some of the fairest scenery in our land, and return home - if he cannot spare longer time - at night." The book also contains an appendix of information on fishing on the Thames.

Cohen 213.

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