The Discovery of Dartmoor. A Wild and Wondrous Region. - MILTON, PATRICIA

Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: maps on endpapers, frontispiece, xij, 242pp., 16 colour plates, 112 illustrations, chapternotes & references, list illustrations, introduction, bibliography, index, table of contents. Very fine copy. Chichester, Phillimore & Co. Ltd. 2006 [Auteur: MILTON, PATRICIA] [Jaar: 2006] [Titel: The Discovery of Dartmoor. A Wild and Wondrous Region.]

2006, 208pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Early visitors to Dartmoor, that great granite mass dominating the centre of Devonshire, usually complained about its climate, agreeing that 'this one thinge is to be observed that all the yere through out commonly it rayneth or it is fowle wether in that more or desert'. This book is a major addition to the literature of Dartmoor. [The Discovery of Dartmoor. A Wild and Wondrous Region]