1893 To Gipsyland

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-six plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed work charting the author's own experiences with the Romani traveller population, first in Philadelphia and subsequently in various European locations, such as Budapest and Slovakia. She considered it the most significant of her many pilgrimages for because of the deep sense of kinship both Elizabeth and Joseph felt towards the (romanticised) 'gipsy' existence. Written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, an American writer who lived in London for most of her life. She was known as a columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic, as well as a writer of travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Illustrated by her husband, Joseph Pennell, a prolific American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator for books and magazines.