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This guidebook is in fairly good condition with green cloth hardcover boards, somewhat discolored and lumpy. Back and front boards are embossed and with gilt lettering of title on the front and spine. Binding sound, pages clean. Few pages loose but still attached, most still tight. The volume is 4.5"x7.5" and has five tissue-covered plates, plus a folded linen-backed map at the end. The frontispiece has a pastedown of 1846 omnibus and steamboat schedules. Features edited by J. Hudson include Wordsworth's descriptions of the scenery of the country and four letters describing the geology of the lake district by the Rev. Professor Sedgwick.

This volume has a full red calf binding with gilt lettering and five raised bands on the spine. The end papers and page edges are beautifully marbled. Rubbing to several edges and the top of the spine. Some cracking and slight rubbing to the edges of the spine. Some page foxing. Steel engraving of Wordsworth by G.J. Stodart. Binding is tight. The owner's inscription in ink (John Remington Wilson) (1847-1904). Penciled note on page 281, along with a string marker. No other markings noted, but two fluffy feathers tipped in. A good, handsome copy.