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    By Malcolm Letts
    London   Methuen & Co. Ltd.
    7.5" by 5" xi [1], 282 pp.
    A smart first edition of this vanishingly scarce =collection of foreign travellers’ impressions of Britain, edited by Malcolm Letts, with illustrated plates and the original unclipped dust wrapper.
    By Malcolm Letts

    1935 As The Foreigner Saw Us

    London   Methuen & Co. Ltd.
    7.5" by 5" xi [1], 282 pp.
    A smart first edition of this vanishingly scarce =collection of foreign travellers’ impressions of Britain, edited by Malcolm Letts, with illustrated plates and the original unclipped dust wrapper.
    £240.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 974H20
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    Description

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

    In the publisher's original yellow cloth binding, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

    This volume is a first edition.

    With 17 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. 

    This edition gathers extracts from diaries, letters, and memoirs of travellers to Britain, ambassadors, merchants, adventurers, and scholars who recorded their impressions of English manners, politics, religion, cities, and countryside.

    Malcolm Letts (1882–1957), a historian and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, specialised in editing and translating travel narratives.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. One or two handling marks to boards. Very slight soiling to cloth. Blank bookplate to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper smart. Age toning to extremities and spines. The odd spot and slight soiling to wraps. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small chip, closed tear and crease, with slight loss to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves.

    Very Good Indeed

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