Excursions

1811 · AQ27935 — London: Printed for Richard Phillips.By J. Adlard 1811. 4 168pp 8. With four terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled paper boards ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked loss to head of spine corners exposed. Early inked ownership inscription of John Johnstone to FEP without free-endpapers scattered spotting. William St Clair's copy with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript note to FEP: 'Could this be Godwin's Rural Walks Note the advertisement for his Scripture Histories. Not in Osborne BL Bodleian CVL or NUC'. The sole edition of a work intended for the instruction of children consisting of eleven pedestrian excursions to Hampstead Highgate Richmond Kew Grove- Hill Norwood Twickenham Edmonton Muswell-Hill Amwell and Waltham Abbey during which a father educates his young sons in the wonders of creation. In his succinct manuscript note St Clair tentatively suggests that this may be William Godwin's Rural Walks a title which appears in the publisher's records but of which no copy appears extant. William St Clair 1937-2021 British scholar and senior civil servant notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys The Biography of a Family 1989 and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period 2004. OCLC record copies at seven locations BL California Florida Miami NYPL Oxford and Toronto; COPAC adds no further. . First edition. 12mo. Printed for Richard Phillips...By J. Adlard hardcover