Seven Travel Books by John James Hissey, Finely Bound by J. Larkins

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884-1896; first editions; (7) volumes uniformly bound in half red leather over marbled paper-covered boards, spines with gilt-lettered and decorated compartments, with marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmarks, and top edge gilt; stamped "BOUND BY J. LARKINS" on first free endpaper verso; 8vo; each with half-title and frontispiece with tissue guard, and all but one with illustrations by the author, with most illustrations full-page and a few volumes with folding maps/plans. To include the following titles: An Old-Fashioned Journey Through England and Wales (1884); A Drive Through England or a Thousand Miles of Road Travel (1885); On the Box Seat from London to Land's End (1886); A Holiday on the Road: An Artist's Wanderings in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey (1887); A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties (1889); Through Ten English Counties (1894); and On Southern English Roads (1896).

Each 8 7/8 x 6 in.

A Private High Point, North Carolina Collection

A group of well-illustrated travel books with an occasional interesting discussion of haunted houses and ghosts.

Overall light wear to boards with occasional age discoloration, light scuffing, and wear to extremities; joints with areas of rubbing and occasional cracking, and one volume with wear at front hinge; interiors with foxing (heaviest at endpapers and early preliminary leaves), ribbon bookmarks frequently detached and causing expected offsetting, and typical age and handling wear such as small stains, a few marks or notations, light grime, and edge wear; a couple of volumes with a small repair; An Old-Fashioned Journey with paper residue and old bookseller's catalogue entry pasted to front paste-down. A handsome and overall clean and sturdy set; about very good.