1881 A Tramp Abroad

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

An early edition of the first UK single-volume edition of 'A Tramp Abroad', first published in the US in 1880. 

Bound in the publisher's original pictorial red cloth.

With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated November 1881.

A delightful work of travel literature, a mixture of autobiography and imagined events, focused on the author's journey through south-western Germany.

Illustrated with the second printing 'Titian's Moses' frontispiece, and a further three-hundred and fourteen vignette and full page illustrations by W. FR. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and others.

The work of American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under his well-known pseudonym Mark Twain. Known for his humorist works, Twain was celebrated as one of the greatest American writers, being labelled by William Faulkner as "the father of American literature".

With the bookplate and inscription of Irish entomologist and arachnologist, Denis Robert Pack Beresford.