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- 1831 (Creation)
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xiii, 140 ff. (ii-xi verso blank) ; 200 x 130 mm.
Half-leather and marbled paper over boards, with single gold fillets; re-backed at NLW, 2022.
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Journal describing tours of parts of England, January-August 1831, by Thomas Letts, with illustrations, sketches and maps.
The volume consists of excursions to Birmingham, 26-[30] January 1831, mainly to inspect various factories and canals (ff. 1-36 verso); and to Cambridge to visit his brother John at Sydney [i.e. Sidney Sussex] College, 20-[28] February 1831 (ff. 37-59 verso); brief excursions to Sevenoaks, Kent, 7-8 May 1831 (ff. 60-70), and to Windsor, Berkshire, 2-[4] July 1831 (ff. 70 verso-90 verso); and a tour of Coventry, Warwick, Birmingham, Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Derby, [17]-22 August 1831 (ff. 91-137 verso). The volume includes eighteen full-page illustrations in pencil, watercolour and wash, mostly original and a few derivative; twenty-one smaller diagrams and sketches in ink and pencil (the majority on ff. 8 verso-34 verso passim), and ten manuscript strip maps in ink and watercolour, all relating to the final tour (ff. 95, 106, 113, 128, 133). Pasted into the volume are a printed map of England and Wales (ff. xii verso-xiii), and printed street maps of Birmingham, 1829 (tipped in on f. xiii verso), and Cambridge (ff. 42 verso-43).
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Covers worn; leaves cut out after ff. 6, 43, 61 (4), 74, 76, 92 (3), 93, 98 (2), 108 (4), 118, 130 (2) and 136.
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- England -- Description and travel
- Birmingham (England) -- Description and travel
- Cambridge (England) -- Description and travel
- Kent (England) -- Description and travel.
- Windsor (Berkshire, England) -- Description and travel.
- Midlands (England) -- Description and travel
- Strip maps -- England -- Midlands
- Birmingham (England) -- Maps
- Cambridge (England) -- Maps
- Factories -- England -- Birmingham
- Canals -- England -- Birmingham
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