JOHN LELAND'S ITINERARY: TRAVELS IN TUDOR ENGLAND
Published by Sutton Publishing Limited. 1st thus. 1998
Slightly better than very good condition. John Leland was a humanist scholar and royal servant who wrote this famed account of his journeys through England as 'the king's antiquary' in the 1540s, though the Itinerary was not published until 1710. This edition retians everything in the Itinerary of historical or topographical interest, turning the text into modern English and arranging it by historic county. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxxvi and 601 pages including index.
Sight reading crease to spine. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.
ISBN: 0750917512
Stock no. 1830865
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- TUDOR
- TRAVEL
