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1875. London, Henry S. King & Co., 1875. 8vo. 2 volumes. Original slate cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, pp. [iii]-x, 376; [vi], 340, [4, advertisements]; each volume with Woodbury type portrait-frontispiece (without tissue guards), 2 colour-lithographic plates and 1 large folding map (repaired tear to fold), travel routes coloured by hand; cloth with a few expert repairs and and a little bumped, initial spotting to both volumes with contemporary stamps of St. Peter's College Glasgow to half-title and verso of one portrait, pencil shelfmarks; a good copy in the rarely seen publisher's binding. First edition. Lady Isabel Burton, devoted wife of Sir Richard Francis, was encouraged to write by him, having gone to meet him at Damascus in 1869. She describes her impressions and experiences of Syria, the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, and in particular a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 'Although she lived in Burton's literary shadow, referring to herself as "the mere bellows player to the… Read More

London: Henry S. King & Co, 1875. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. photographic frontises (Isabel in Vol. I and Richard in Vol. II), 2 chromolithographic plates, folding map, x, 376, 340p plus [3]p. publisher's advertisements. Rebound in modern 1/2 leather (marbled green boards backed in darker green leather with matching corners). Map misfolded which has caused the outer edge to protrude slightly and be subject to soiling and wear. Mostly minor foxing. A few spots on page edges and here and there in text. INSCRIBED on the half-title in Vol. I in the author's hand ("To my old & valued friend Lady Marian Alford with the affectionate regard of the Author July 6 1875"). Isabel Burton refers to Lady Alford at page 379 in Vol. I of "The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton" as "... our best and never to-be-forgotten friend..."