Elizabeth Robins Pennell — To Gipsyland

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this American author's travelogue of her time with the Romani Gypsy population, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-six plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed work charting the author's own experiences with the Romani traveller population, first in Philadelphia and subsequently in various European locations, such as Budapest and Slovakia. She considered it the most significant of her many pilgrimages for because of the deep sense of kinship both Elizabeth and Joseph felt towards the (romanticised) 'gipsy' existence. Written by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, an American writer who lived in London for most of her life. She was known as a columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic, as well as a writer of travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Illustrated by her husband, Joseph Pennell, a prolific American draftsman, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator for books and magazines. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine with small splits in the cloth to the head and tail. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Joseph Pennell. Good .