Octavo, red cloth with gilt design to top boards showing house surrounded by tress. Top edge gilt. Xvi + 400pp. 124 photographs. Spine sunned a shade and lightly rubbed to head and heel. Tight. Vg. Sections include 'In Spenser's Footsteps' which features Althorpe House (later the home of Diana, Princess of Wales), 'The Birthplace of Gray's Elegy', 'Gilbert White's Selborne', 'Goldsmith's "Deserted Village"'. 'Burns in Ayrshire', 'Keats and His Circle', and gives local context and flavour to the writers and their works.

BRITAIN, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, IRELAND LITERATURE