SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES T, r r . i r j ... I f t, A VIEW OF MONK ItAlt S E V E N ENGLISH CITIES BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1909 CONTENTS PAOK A MOIXBST LIKING FOE LIVERPOOL ......... 3 B MERITS OF MANCHESTER ........... 15 IN SMOKIKHT SHEFFIELD, . ...... .... 27 NINE DAYS WONDER IN YOKE .......... 41 Two YOEKTBH EPTBODKS ............. 69 A DAY AT DONCAHTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DuKHAM . 80 Tim MOTHER OF THE AMERICAN ATHENB ....... 97 ABBETBTWYTH, A WKLSH WATEEING-PLACB ...... 121 ...
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SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES T, r r . i r j ... I f t, A VIEW OF MONK ItAlt S E V E N ENGLISH CITIES BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1909 CONTENTS PAOK A MOIXBST LIKING FOE LIVERPOOL ......... 3 B MERITS OF MANCHESTER ........... 15 IN SMOKIKHT SHEFFIELD, . ...... .... 27 NINE DAYS WONDER IN YOKE .......... 41 Two YOEKTBH EPTBODKS ............. 69 A DAY AT DONCAHTER AND AN HOUR OUT OF DuKHAM . 80 Tim MOTHER OF THE AMERICAN ATHENB ....... 97 ABBETBTWYTH, A WKLSH WATEEING-PLACB ...... 121 LLANPXTDNO, ANOTHER WELSH WATERINO-PLACB .... 139 GUMPSHJB OF ENGLISH CHARACTER ......... 159 ILLUSTEATIONS A VIEW OF MONK BAR Frontispiece ST. GEORGES HALL, LIVERPOOL Facing p. 4 THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT, LIVERPOOL 8 THE LIVERPOOL DOCKS 10 MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL 16 TOWN HALL, MANCHESTER 20 THE MANCHESTER SHIP-CANAL 22 TOWN HALL, SHEFFIELD 34 YORK MINSTER THE GRANDEST IN ALL ENGLAND . . 44 BOOTH AM BAR AND THE MINSTER 52 WALMGATB BAR HAS A BARBICAN 56 ST. MARYS ABBEY 60 CLIFFORDS TOWER 64 YORK AS SEEN FROM THE RIVER 74 DURHAM CATHEDRAL NORTHWEST VIEW 82 FINCH ALB PRIORY . . 86 DURHAM CATHEDRAL ITS MATCHLESS BEAT ON THE BLUFFS OF THK RIVER . f . 92 THE STUMP OF ST. BOTOLPHS CHURCH AGAINST THE SKY 98 THE WORTHY ANCESTRESS OF FANEUIL HALL AND QUINCY MARKET-PLACES 100 THE RIVER AT EVENING 102 LIFTING ITS TOWER FROM THE BRINK OF THE WITHAM 106 FISHING-SHIPS AT GREAT GRIMSBY 116 TUB BEACH, ABBRYSTWYTH 124 ABBEYSTWYTH FROM GRA. IG GLAS ROCKS . t, f . t 130 I LLU8TRATIOX8 UiANDUDNO THE CITY AND HARBOR Facing j, MO LL. VNWWNO FKOM GRKAT OttMBtf NECK u 144 TUK tJKKAT PI Kit, L. LANDXTDNO MS CON WAY CASTLK u If 2 PDAS MAWR lf 4 A PRH3SKNTATION AT COUKT, . . . 4f 1 2 THM KN 3LISHHOTTSEMAI c 190 LKADS A LIFK OF GAYETY ON THE BANDH . . . . 194 A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES A MODEST LIKING FOR LIVERPOOL WHY should the proud stomach of American travel, much tossed In the transatlantic voyage, so instantly have itself carried from Liverpool to any point where trains will convey it Liverpool is most worthy to be seen and known, and no one who looks tip from the bacon and eggs of his first hotel breakfast after land ing, and finds himself confronted by the coal-smoked Greek architecture of St Georges Hall, can deny that it is of a singularly noble presence. The city has moments of failing in the promise of this classic edi fice, but every now and then it reverts to it, and re minds the traveller that he is in a great modern me tropolis of commerce by many other noble edifices. Liverpool does not remind him of this, so much as the good and true Baedeker professes, in the dockside run on the overhead railway as the place unambitious ly calls its elevated road but then, as I noted in my account of Southampton, docks have a fancy of taking themselves in, and eluding the tourist eye, and even wjien SEVEN ENGLISH CITIES they flank tlic Mersey for a distance of 6 7 M they do not respond to American curiosity so frankly as could Tbe wished. They are like other English things in that, however, and it must he said for them that when apparent they are sometimes unimpressive. From mj own note-book, indeed, I find that T pretended to think them wonderful and almost endless, and so I dare say they are. Out they formed only a very per functory interest of our clay at Liverpool, where we had come to meet, not to take, a steamer. Our run from London, in the heartof June, was very quick and pleasant, through a neat country and many tidy towns...
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First Edition. "Published October 1909" on copyright page. Illustrated. 32 full photo page plates. Green cloth stamped in gold and red. Fancy Gothic script on binding. Top page edges gilt. 201pp. Liverpool. Manchester. Sheffield. York. Doncaster. Durham. Cambridge. plus Aberystwyth and Llandudno in Wales. Two previous owner's names on flyleaf otherwise very clean. Tight. Bright. no jacket. Fine condition.
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing. 1909 at title and copyright; stated Printed October, 1909. Scarce original; fine book craftsmanship. Fine green cloth boards, ornate red and gilt cover and spine titles. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece plate w/tissue. Extended writings on Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester, York, Durham, and general musings on English character. A sort of early travelogue on these cities plus Boston, Doncaster, and two Welsh cities, Aberystwtyh and Llandudno. Intriguing photoplates, etchings throughout. 201 pages. Few stamps for Hampton Library of Bridge Hampton, Long Island, removed card pocket.
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