[Rarebooks] fa: 1697 ACCOUNT OF MR. ROGERS'S THREE YEARS TRAVEL OVER ENGLAND AND WALES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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[James Brome:] An Historical Account of Mr. Rogers's Three Years Travels over England and Wales. Giving a True and Exact Description of all the chiefest Cities, Towns and Corporations in England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Twede. Together with the Antiquities, and Places of Admiration, Cathedrals, Churches of Note in any City, Town or Place in each County. The Gentleman above-mentioned having made it his whole Business (during the aforesaid time) to compleat the same in his Travelling. To which is annexed a new Map of England and Wales, with the adjacent Parts, containing all the Cities and Market-Towns bound in just before the Title. The Second Edition. London: Printed for A. Roper at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, both in Fleetstreet, 1697. Small 8vo (16 cm) in early paneled calf; [8] + 128 pp.; folding map (in facsimile).

A piracy that actually precedes the publication of the authorized edition of Brome's work, Travels over England, Scotland and Wales (1700). Some scuffs and modest wear to the boards, front joint cracked but secure, loss to the head of the spine; lacking the map, as often, which has been replaced with a modern facsimile; some darkening/dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block, mild toning to the leaves with occasional light spots and creases, else quite clean and sound. Not in ESTC, which calls for erratic pagination (pp. 97-112 are repeated). In our copy the text and pagination are continuous. The only other possible match we can find is the copy held by the British Library (also lacking the map) that gives the pagination simply as 128 pp. and notes that the title-page is a cancel, as is the case with ours. Interestingly, it appears an attempt was made very early on in the book's existence, perhaps in the printing/binding process, to obscure that part of the title-page which alludes to the map, probably by gluing a slip of paper over it (the verso shows bleed-through), suggesting that this edition/issue of the book might never have had the map in the first place. In any case, a well-preserved copy of an uncommon 17th-century account of travels in England and Wales, "it's Bulk but small, yet the Matter contain'd large and extensive." We're still not sure who Mr. Rogers is, though.