Lot 46
 

MANUSCRIPT. A Tramp from Great Malvern to Crewe in September 1867. Landscape folio. Title and 31 pages of text. Cover illustration and 32 further original illustrations, 4 small sepia photographs and a few newspaper cuttings. The two travellers start at Malvern and go to Hereford, Ledbury, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Wroxeter, Haughmond, Wem and Crewe. The account is written in a jocular style: for example, at Ledbury church, the writer remarks on a notice inside 'Strangers looking round the church are expected to pay 6d: We let 'em expect!' Original covers worn and chipped.

Sold for £420


 
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