Description

Cabinet Edition. Original blindstamped red cloth with brown coated endpapers. Old owner’s book label inside front cover. Kinglake first published ‘EOTHEN’ in 1844. This edition reprints the preface to the first edition. A classic of Near Eastern travel, Kinglake describes the Greek Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Beirut, and many other exotic locals in the still uncorrupted Mediterranean world of the 1840’s. Cloth slightly age soiled, else a sound, clean good+ copy.