£60
PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo, pp. 356, [4, ads]. Original blue cloth, front board blocked and lettered in red, spine lettered in gilt and blocked in red. Just a touch soiled, spine ends bumped. Inscribed to verso of contents leaf: ‘From the author, R.B. Mansfield’.
A 'small volume of autobiographical gossip' (ODNB) by sportsman and author Robert Blachford Mansfield (1824-1908), best remembered today as the author of two travelogues of boating expeditions on German rivers in the 1850s. These expeditions are the subject of chapter 4, while other chapters cover travels in the Crimea, Albania and Scotland. Library Hub records 4 copies: BL, NLS, Cambridge and TCD.
