E. V. Lucas — The Open Road: A Book for Wayfarers

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1913. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated companion for those who have taken to the road in search of a holiday. Twentieth edition, first printing in this form. Illustrated with a tipped in colour frontispiece and fifteen tipped in colour plates. Collated complete. A delightful anthology intended to provide companionship on the road for city-dwellers who make holiday. Being a collection of poetry and prose fitted to urge folk into the open air. With contributions from Edward FitzGerald, W. B. Yeats, Hilaire Belloc, R. L. Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Alice Meynell, Robert Browning, E. B. Browning, P. B. Shelley, Lord Byron, Matthew Arnold, and many others. Written by Edward Verrall Lucas, an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. Illustrated by Claude Allin Shepperson, a British artist, illustrator, and printmaker specializing mainly in social scenes and landscapes. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Claude A. Shepperson. Very Good .