This is a neat old book! It was pushed in 1896 by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. The book measures 5 ¼ inches by 8 ¼ inches and contains 260 pages. The blue cloth cover has beautiful gilt detailing on the front and down the spine. The spine area is slightly faded and soiled. The cover shows minor signs of wear. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The fore edges and page bottoms are deckled. The pages are printed on good quality paper and show no signs of rips or foxing. The photographs are tissue covered. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good.

Contents:

Literary Hampstead and Highgate
Haunt of Dickens; Steele; Pope; Keats; Baillie; Johnson; Hunt; Akenside; Shelley; Hogarth; Addison; Richardson; Gay; Besant; Du Maurier; Coleridge, etc. Grave of George Elliot

By Southwark and Thames-side to Chelsea
Chaucer; Shakespeare; Dickens; Walpole; Pepys; Eliot; Rossetti; Carlyle; Hunt; Gay; Smollett; Kingsley; Herbert; Dorset; Addison; Shaftesbury; Locke; Bolingbroke; Pope; Richardson, etc.

The Scene of Gray’s Elegy
The Country Church Yard; Tomb of Gray; Stoke; Progis Church; Reverie and Reminiscence; Scenes of Milton; Waller; Porter; Coke; Denham

Dickensland: Gad’s Hill and about
Chaucer’s Pilgrims; Falstaff; Dickens’s Abode; Study; Grounds; Walks; Neighbors; Guests; Scenes of Tales; Cobham; Rochester; Pip’s Church; Church-Yard; Satis House, etc.

Some Haunts of Byron
Birthplace; London Homes; Murray’s Book-Store; Knesal Green; Harrow; Byron’s Tomb; His Diadem Hill; Abode of his Star of Annesley; Portraits; Mementos

The Home of Childe Harold
Newstead; Byron’s Apartments; Relics and Reminders; Ghosts; Ruins; The Young Oak; Dog’s Tomb; Devil’s Wood; Irving; Livingstone; Stanley; Joaquin Miller

Warwickshire: The Loamshire of George Eliot
s Mulick; Butler; Somervile; Dyer; Rugby; Homes of George Eliot; Scenes of Tales; Cheverel; Shepperton; Milly’s Grave; Paddiford; Milby; Coventry, etc.; Characters; Incidents

Yorkshire Shrines: Dotheboys Hall and Rokeby
Village of Bowes; Dickens; Squeers’s School; The Master and his Family; Haunt of Scott

Sterne’s Sweet Retirement
Sutton; Crazy Castle; Yorick’s Church; Parsonage; Where Tristram Shandy and the Sentimental Journey were written; Reminiscences; Newburgh Hall; Where Sterne died; Sepulchre

Haworth and the Brontes
The Village; Black Bull Inn; Church; Vicarage; Memory-haunted Rooms; Bronte Tomb; Moors; Bronte Cascade; Wuthering Heights; Humble Friends; Relic and Recollection

Early haunts of Robert Collyer: Eugen Aram
Childhood Home; Ilkley Scenes, Friends, Smithy, Chapel; Bolton; Associations; Wordsworth; Rogers; Eliot; Turner; Aram’s Homes; Schools; Place of the Murder; Gibbet; Probable Innocence

Home of Sydney Smith
Heslington; Foston, Twelve Miles from a Lemon; Church; Rector’s Head; Study; Room of all work; Grounds; Guests; Universal Scratcher; Immortal Chariot; Reminiscences

Nithsdale Rambles
Scott; Hogg; Wordsworth; Carlyle’s Birthplace; Homes; Grave; Burns’s Haunts; Tomb; Jeanie Deans; Old Mortality; etc.; Annie Laurie’s Birthplace; Habitation; Poet; Lover; Descendants

A Niece of Robert Burns
Her Burnsland Cottage; Reminiscences of Burns; Relics; Portraits; Letters; Recitations; Account of his Death; Memories of his Home; Of Bonnie Jean; Other Heroines

Highland Mary: Her Homes and Grave
Birthplace; Personal Appearance; Relations to Burns; Abodes; Mauchline; Coilsfield, etc.; Scenes of Courtship and Parting; Mementos; Tomb by the Clyde

Bronte Scenes in Brussels
School; Class-Rooms; Dormitory; Garden; Scenes and Events of Villette and the Professor; M. Paul; Madame Beck; Memories of the Brontes; Confessional; Grave of Jessy Yorke

Leman’s Shrines
Beloved of Literateurs; Gibbon; D’Aubigne; Rosseau; Byron; Shelley; Dickens, etc.; Scenes of Childe Harold; Nouvelle Heloise; Prisoner of Chillon; Land of Byron

Chateaux of Ferney and Coppet
Voltaire’s Home; Church, Study, Garden, Relics; Literary Court of de Stael: Mementos; Famous Rooms, Guests; Schlegel; Shelley; Constant; Byron; Davy; etc.; De Stael’s tomb

Photographs:
Stratford-on-Avon
Keats’ House, Wentworth Place, Hampstead
The Home of Datne Gabriel Rossetti, Chelsea
Pope’s Villa, Twickenham
Stoke-Pogis Church and Church-yard
Gad’s Hill House, the Home of Charles Dickens
Newstead Abbey
Griff House, Childhood home of George Eliot
Rydal Water
Bolton Abbey
The Home of Annie Laurie
Castle of Chillon
Ouchy
Chateau de Coppet, Residence of Madame de Stael

Excerpt - Preface:
The favor with which a few articles in the periodical press, similar to those herewith presented, have been received induces the hope that the present volume may prove acceptable. If some popular literary shrines which are inevitably included in the writer’s personal itinerary are herein accorded but scant notice, it is for the reason that they have been already so oft described that portrayal of them is therefore purposely omitted from this account of a literary pilgrimage: even Stratford-on-Avon here for once escapes description. However, the initial paragraphs of these chapters lightly outline a series of literary rambles which the writer has found measurably compete and consecutive. The pilgrim is understood to make his start from London…
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