Richard Warner — A Walk Through Wales, in August 1797

Bath, R. Crutwell, 1810. Leather. The fifth revised edition of a charming ramble across Wales, with a route itinerary for readers to follow, by a travel writer admired by Wordsworth. The fifth edition of A Walk through Wales, a charming ramble of the scenic country and the Marches, written by English clergyman and antiquary Richard Warner. Rebound in a modern soft morocco, with renewed marble end papers. Blanks renewed, with original half-title preserved. Contains a small vignette to the title leaf, and a couple of in-text illustrations. Beginning in Bath, where which he lived and conducted many antiquarian studies, Warner's ramble took readers across the Severn and along the Usk, as well as visits to the North at Conwy and Bangor. Warner's detailed itinerary allowed readers to copy his route with much popularity, with each edition involving small corrections from the public.  Warner's admirers included William Wordsworth, who collected many of his travelogues. Rebound in a modern soft morocco, with renewed marble end papers. Blanks renewed, with original half-title preserved. Externally, smart, with minimal marks to boards. Small knocks to extremities and a couple of minor rubbing marks to spine. Marble end papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and mostly clean with faint spot to extremities of the odd leaf, heavier to pp.84-85. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Unknown. Very Good Indeed .