[no discernible wear to book, but the previous owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase at the top of the front endpaper, and has also taped there the business card of the bookshop where he bought it; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of edgewear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Author Arthur (A.C.) Benson's "abiding passion was the diary which he began to keep in 1897," when he was about thirty-five years old. "This selection from the first few years is a marvellous evocation of Edwardian Britain, a series of twelve period pieces mixing London and the countryside, Imperial, viceregal and episcopal splendour with the private pleasures of landscape and antiquities." Many of his observations were made possible by his preferred mode of transport: the bicycle.
Title: Edwardian Excursions: From the Diaries of A.C. Benson 1898-1904
Edition: First Edition
Location Published: London, John Murray: 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Categories: *NEW ARRIVALS
Seller ID: 27997
Keywords: writers diaries edwardian era bicycling biography