Myrtles and Aloes; or, Our Salcombe Sketch Book. LUSCOMBE (Ellen).

PRINTED AT KINGSBRIDGE

with some Addenda in the shape of a Discursive Gossip about Kingsbridge. By Francis Young.

12 lithograph illustrations on eight plates, including the frontispiece.

First Edition. 8vo. [220 x 140 x 14 mm]. viii, 152 pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth, the covers with a blind blocked border and with a gilt block on the front, spine lettered in gilt, plain endleaves and edges. (Joints, headcaps and corners rubbed, with crack at foot of lower joint).
Kingsbridge: G. P. Friend, Gazette Office Fore Street. London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1861.

A little light spotting or browning but a very good copy of this rare provincial guide book to a popular stretch of the south Devon coast. It has the bookplate of James Davidson (1793-1864), antiquary and bibliographer, with his ink stamp "Secktor Library". Books from the library were put up for sale by William George of Bristol in 1887. With the bookplate of Thomas Nadauld Brushfield F.S.A. (1828-1910), superintendent of lunatic asylums and author. He retired to The Cliff, Budleigh Salterton, the birthplace of Sir Walter Ralegh.

Stock no. ebc7838