A Week at the Lizard

Description:

Third edition, including three Appendices (Botany, Birds, Geology). Only this edition was printed by the Clarendon Press, Oxford (imprint on verso of title-page). This copy does not have the folding map, which according to Coombe should be present in all editions, but several copies of various editions which he examined lacked the map, and he states, '... few of the 26 copies I have examined agree in all "points."' This book ran to four editions and was rarely out of print between 1848 and 1916. All editions and issues apart from the first are undated. (Full information on the editions may be found in Coombe). Coombe states that this work, 'remains one of the most delightful and entertaining of local guide-books, but it is made a work of more than local and ephemeral importance by its content in natural history, by Johns's intimate knowledge of the area as a young man (1831-47), and by the outstanding botanical richness and geological peculiarities of this southernmost promontory of Cornwall.'

Coombe, D.E. (1970) J. Soc. Bib. nat. Hist. 5(4): 259-269; Freeman 1972.

Condition

Sm. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, gt + blind-stamped dec. to front board and spine, rubbed, minor wear to foot of rear joint. Very good (but this copy lacks the map).