Hardcover
[1949] · London
by Houghton, Leighton
London: Rich and Cowan. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. [1949]. "5th Thousand". Hardcover. [minimal wear to book, a nice tight attracive copy; jacket a little worn at extremities, some internal dampstaining but only a trace of bleed-through on spine]. ("In the Steps of" series) Series (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) "Travelling round Britain on a second tour of three thousand miles, the author rediscovers the places associated with the men of the Middle Ages. The story he tells is interspersed with anecdotes of his adventures and many a tale and legend gleaned from a casual acquaintance on the road, so that side by side with his picture of medieval Britain he depicts the ordinary people of modern Britain whom he met on his journey to the historic haunts of the Normans and Plantagenets." . (Inventory #: 23136)