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AVEBURY (Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron):

THE SCENERY OF ENGLAND AND THE CAUSES TO WHICH IT IS DUE.

London: Macmillan & Co. 1902. First edition. Lord Avebury (1834-1913), to whom we owe the institution of the Bank Holiday, works with formidable power across a range of disciplines. Beginning in geology and ending in law and custom, he traces the genesis of the English landscape. Demy 8vo. xxvi,534.[ii]pp. 198 illustrations. Folding map. Bibliography. Original cloth gilt; some occasional spotting, mainly of endpapers, but a very good copy indeed.

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