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UNRECORDED ALBUMEN ILLUSTRATIONS OF YORKSHIRE HILL WALKING

H.M.M.. Two nights on the hills, October, 1863.

[s.i.]. [s.n.], 1863.
Oblong folio. [20]ff, consisting of a title and 16 leaves (featuring 18 captioned albumen illustrations), with three further terminal blanks. Contemporary half roan, cloth boards, with red morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Worn, with loss to spine, corners. Bookplate of the Oliver Collection to FEP.
An apparently unrecorded, almost certainly privately produced volume of humorous albumen illustrations which, with the captions, forms an account - whether fictional or otherwise - of a two-night hill walking expedition to Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales by a group of three men, including 'KENNEDY, The mover of the expedition', 'W***N. The gentleman who wouldn't move and voted for beer'. The group, as a sub-plot reveals, was to number four, but owing to a feminine distraction on Loch Lomond, the 'TALL GENTLEMAN FROM THE NORTH' was never to arrive. The group both arrive and depart by train, with three of the images representing the group shortly after arriving at the station, taking 'possession of the waiting-room' to 'perform their morning toilette' and leaving 'Ingletno by the early train'.

We can find no reference to this work; neither COPAC nor OCLC locate a single copy.
£ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref: 18360