Lavengro; The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest
by BORROW, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray 1851, 1851. First edition. In three volumes. 12mo (197x120mm). pp. xx, 360, 32pp ads; xi, 1bl, 366, 32pp. ads; xi, 1bl, 426. Engraved frontispiece in volume 1. Half titles in all three volumes and advertisements as called for. Original green/blue cloth with ribbed pattern to the borders of the upper and lower covers. White paper labels to the spines with the title and author printed in black. The label on volume two is torn at the head with some loss. Some wear to the extremities and small tears to the head of the spines and to the foot of the spine of volume three. Some internally cracking to the spine of volume three although the binding is still strong. Contents are in very good/near fine condition with no significant marking or foxing. A nice set of this influential and ever-popular work which combines travelling writing, autobiography and fiction. Can we call Borrow the first psycho-geographer?
Synopsis
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2874
- Title
- Lavengro; The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest
- Author
- BORROW, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Murray 1851
- Date Published
- 1851
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Voewood Rare Books
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Holt, Norfolk
About Voewood Rare Books
Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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