[CORNWALL] A week at the Lizard.

/ by the Rev. C. A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S., author of “Botanical Rambles,” “Flowers of the Field,” “British Birds in their Haunts,” &c. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1874]. Small octavo (165 x 110 mm), publisher’s brown cloth with black decoration to upper board, spine with gilt-lettered title and black decoration; pp. xvi, 275, [1 ad.]; frontispiece plate, folding map, and numerous lithographed illustrations (several full-page); very clean throughout, an excellent copy.

A later nineteenth-century edition of this charming English regional study. First published in 1848, it is as much a natural history guide to the area as it is a travelogue. The Lizard (Cornish: an Lysardh) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, whose extremity, Lizard Point, is the southernmost point of the British mainland.