** Scarce ** A Pictorial Handbook to the Valley of the Ribble By Johnson 1881

Author: Thos Johnson

Title: A Pictorial Handbook to the Valley of the Ribble Being A Complete Guide to the Tourist,or the Stranger Visiting Blackburn,Wilpshire,Ribchester,Whalley,Mitton,Stonyhurst,Clitheroe,Pendle Hill,Sawley Abbey,Gisburn,Gordale Scar & Malham Cove

Publication:  First Edition Published by Haworth & Johnson and John Heywood in Blackburn and Manchester 1881………(See Pictures) 

Condition and Status of The Book: 

This is a Good Copy of this book neatly rebound in brown cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine.Originally introduced to readers in 1880 as a handbook for Tourists this edition was expanded to illustrate and describe the beautiful spots which the completion of line from Hellifield to Gisburn had opened out to the new class of tourists and the populated towns of East Lancashire.Illustrated with sketches from nature by Chas Haworth of Blackburn of more than 30 in total.There are some btrowning spots noted within the text and some scorching to several pages of text at the end of the book,no doubt down to the discarding of fag ash by a former reader.No loose pages are present.,blue endpapers.A rare title on the Ribble Valley,little has really changed over the last 140 years,8vo 140pp plus 7 pages of local Business adverts to the rear of the book.1881