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Nooks and Corners of Shropshire

By H. Thornhill Timmins

2019-06-10 23:40:11

My work completed, I may be permitted to add a few words by way of envoi. 'Nooks and Corners' is the outcome of many prolonged sketching rambles in Shropshire, where, as I roamed about the County, in search of subjects for pen and pencil, I succee ... Read more
My work completed, I may be permitted to add a few words by way of envoi. 'Nooks and Corners' is the outcome of many prolonged sketching rambles in Shropshire, where, as I roamed about the County, in search of subjects for pen and pencil, I succeeded in gleaning a good deal of original information anent the places I visited; and I was greeted by all sorts and conditions of Salopians with that hospitality for which they are proverbial, and which has left me their grateful debtor. Though the more important places here illustrated are probably familiar to many of my readers, there are certain scenes and objects in the course of this work which have never been pictured or described before, and which will, I trust, prove of interest to Salopians. Amidst such an embarras de richesses, I have of necessity been obliged to pick and choose the subjects dealt with; for in matter antiquarian the locality is well-nigh inexhaustible. Less

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File size7191.99 KB
Print pages320
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-02-14
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1333881870
Born: 4 January 1856, King's Norton, Birmingham, United Kingdom Died: 4 February 1908, Rome, Italy...

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