Algernon Heber-Percy — Letters Home

Market Drayton, Bennion & Horne, 1894. First edition. Leather. A very scarce signed travelogue of a Shropshire serviceman's personal experiences travelling through Egypt and the Levant. The first edition of Letters Home, an very scarce travelogue through Egypt and the Levant, written and signed by Shropshire soldier and public official Algernon Heber-Percy. No institutional copies of this work are available in the UK. Rebacked in a modern cloth spine, with the publisher's decorative original red cloth roan corners preserved. End papers renewed, with the original pastedown containing Heber-Percy's signed inscription preserved. Contains a folding frontispiece, an ink photograph plate, and in-text illustrations. Collated complete. Being letters addressed to his mother and father, Heber-Percy offers us an insightful portrait of the cultural and geographical landscape through his personal experiences with Bedouins, different Islamic and Christian communities, as well as historical monuments he encounters, including The Dome of the Rock. A lieutenant with the Shropshire Yeomanry, he would later serve for the Governors of Queensland and British New Guinea, and become father of Shropshire eccentric Robert Heber-Percy.  Rebacked in a modern cloth spine, with the publisher's decorative original red cloth roan corners preserved. End papers renewed, with the original pastedown containing Heber-Percy's signed inscription preserved. Externally, mostly smart, with the odd faint mark to board extremities, including a splash mark to top extremity of front board. Rubbing and knocks to roan extremities. A couple of faint spots to original pastedown, with renewed end papers bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Unknown. Very Good .