Notes of Travel Printed Area Measurement_26.5 x 31.5 cm 1806) Sir Walter Scott was

1806) Sir Walter Scott was less than complimentary

by purchasing from the Metropolitan Railway Country Estates

Johnson supplied a new preface for the octavo abridgement of his famous Dictionary in which he explained that 'a small dictionary appeared yet to be wanting for common readers'

Green publisher’s cloth with Survey of India crest (pre- and post-Independence according to date) blocked in gilt on the front covers

Un-numbered leaves

Notes of Travel Printed Area Measurement_26.5 x 31.5 cm 1806) Sir Walter Scott wasNotes of Travel. Extracts from Home Letters written during a Two Years Tour Round the World, 1879 1881 Only edition. This is a presentation copy, inscribed ('From the writer') and initialled by the author, dated July, 1882. The letters record a young traveller's world tour, from Liverpool to Quebec, California, Australia and New Zealand; he spent nearly a year in the Antipodes (1879 80). He then visited China, Japan, the Philippines, South east Asia,