1858 Description ENGLISH LAKES Harriet Martineau ILLUSTRATED ED 1st PLATES Map
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A Description of the English Lakes
By Harriet Martineau
1858
With Six Steel Engraved Plates - One Colour Folding Map - Forty Four Wood Engravings (priced on separate paper and stuck to page) - Two Plates Illustrating Scenes - And One Double Page Scene.
Scarce: Illustrated Edition of Martineau's Guide book to the Lake District
Martineau's work included a widely used guide book to the Lake District, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, published in 1855 and in its 4th edition by 1876. This served as the definitive guidebook for the area for 25 years, effectively replacing the earlier guide by William Wordsworth, and continued in common usage until the publication of Baddeley's Thorough Guide to the English Lake District in 1880.
Martineau spent a large part of her later life in Ambleside, her guide to the Lakes being regarded as definitive until the beginning of the twentieth century. She herself became a tourist attraction, so much so that when she became ill her doctor wrote to the newspapers declaring the 'absolute necessity' of literary tourists 'not harassing her by the intrusion of visits of mere idle curiosity'.Martineau was able to support herself throughout her life by her writing, which extended to many books and much journalism, and is now credited with being one of the first sociologists, her work taking a wide moral overview of her concerns, from political economy to the education of young women, from slavery to the plight of the working poor. She translated Auguste Comte's 'Cours de Philosophie Positive', regarded as the founding text of the science of Sociology, so well that Comte had her version translated back into French
Windermere - Ambleside - Keswick
Author: Harriet Martineau
Publisher: London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co
Edition: 1858 First Edition
Attributes: Scarce, and Complete with all plates and pages present
Condition: Original boards with a rebacked spine, boards rubbed, with old map staining to the front board. All pages and plates complete. binding remains form, pages tight. new endpapers and pastedowns, toned tissue Guard to Frontispiece. text pages lightly toned with the occasional spot, plates as usual have light foxing, no damp staining to pages.
Information: English: 28.5cm x 23.4cm 173pp
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