L LLoyd — Peasant Life in Sweden

London, Tinsley Brothers, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this comprehensive work on the social life and customs of Sweden. Illustrated throughout with eight full page plates. E H Llewelyn Lloyd was a Welsh amateur naturalist who lived for more than two decades in Sweden. Lloyd wrote extensively on Sweden, drawing from his diaries and notes, and particularly on the different Scandinavian local customs, peasant life and hunting. Rebound in a cloth binding with library markings to spine. Externally, excellent condition, remnants of bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound, strained in places particularly to illustrated title page and frontispiece. Frontispiece with loss to gutter. Pages bright and generally clean with illustrated title page and frontispiece heavily spotted. Library ink markings to verso of illustrated title page. Library blind stamps throughout. Library ink stamps to the verso of plates. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Unnamed. Very Good Indeed .