THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT
COLLECTION
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A truly unique and wonderful
collection of over 100 rare, out-of-print books and guides compiled together
for the first time on DVD DATA DISC covering all aspects of one of England’s
most visited and most beautiful places – THE LAKE DISTRICT.
Discover the history of the English Lake District and the picturesque
scenery that has captured the imagination of both inhabitants and visitors for
thousands of years. Read about the districts and local people of Cumberland and
Westmorland. Uncover their dialects, stories, traditions, legends,
superstitions and customs. Study vintage guides of the famous lakes and
villages – Windermere, Coniston, Derwentwater, Ullswater, Kendal, Keswick,
Bowness, Grasmere, Ambleside and more. Read about the poets of the English lake
district and their works, including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. Study
descriptions of places and the scenery that make this beautiful landscape so
intriguing.
Some of the books contained
within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable
library of reference material for anyone with an interest in the Lake District
and the history of this popular holiday location in the northwest of England. The
full list of titles included speaks for itself….
This superb compilation of
105 vintage books and guides on DVD data disc provides literally 1,000’s of
pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All
of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf
format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet,
smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select
pages.
This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
A companion
to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire by E. Baines (1834)
A complete
guide to the English lakes by H. Martineau (1861)
A complete
guide to the lakes by J. Hudson (1842)
A concise
description of the English lakes and adjacent mountains by J. Otley (1830)
A descriptive
guide to the English lakes and adjacent mountains, with notices of the botany,
mineralogy, and geology of the district by J. Otley (1849)
A flora of
the English Lake District by J. G. Baker
(1885)
A glossary of
the words and phrases of Furness (North Lancashire)
by J. P. Morris (1869)
A guide to
the Lakes by T. West (1778)
A guide to
the mountains, lakes and north-west coast of England, descriptive of natural
scenery historical, archaeological, and legendary by M. Walcott (1860)
A history of Cumberland by R. S.
Ferguson (1890)
A journey
made in the summer of 1794 ... to which are added, observations during a tour
to the lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland Vols. 1 & 2 by A.
W. Radcliffe (1795)
A pictorial
and descriptive guide to the English
Lake District - with
outline guide for pedestrians by Ward, Lock & Co. (1916)
A thousand
miles of wandering along the Roman Wall, the old border region, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale
by E. Bogg (1898)
A tour
through the northern counties of England
and the borders of Scotland
by R. Warner (1802)
Annals of my
early life, 1806-1846; with occasional compositions in Latin and English verse
by C. Wordsworth (1891)
Annals of my
life, 1847-1856 by C. Wordsworth (1893)
Branthwaite
Hall and other poems by W. Hetherington (1837)
By fell and
dale at the English lakes by H. D. Rawnsley (1911)
Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland
by D. Scott (1899)
Capella de
Gerardegile or, The story of a Cumberland
chapelry (Garrigill) by C. Caine (1908)
Coniston
tales by W. G. Collingwood (1899)
Crosby
Garrett, Westmorland; a history of the manor of Crosby Garrett in Westmorland,
with local custom and legends by J. W. Nicholson (1914)
Cumberland
& Westmorland, ancient and modern; the people, dialect, superstitions and
customs by J. Sullivan (1857)
Cummerland
talk - being short tales and rhymes in the dialect of that county by J.
Richardson (1876)
De Quincey's
editorship of The Westmorland gazette, with selections from his work on that
journal, from July 1818 to November 1819 by C. Pollitt (1890)
Delegates'
guide to Barrow-in-Furness and to the lake
& sea trips in the district by S. S. Lord (1906)
Glacial drift
of the central part of the Lake District, up to 2800 feet above the sea by D.
Mackintosh (1872)
Granite chips
and clints; or, Westmorland in words by B. Kirby (1900)
Grasmere's saint
verses and poems. A reply to Wild Lakeland
by E. G. Fletcher (1920)
Handy guide
to the English lakes and Shap Spa, with map and views by C. M. St. John (1880)
Highways and
byways in the Lake District by A. G. Bradley
(1901)
History of
the Parish Church
Windermere (sometimes erroneously called Bowness Parish
Church) by E. J. Nurse
(1908)
In Lakeland dells and fells
by W. T. Palmer (1903)
Keswick and
its neighbourhood - a hand-book for the use of visitors, to all the scenery,
nooks, and corners of the district (1852)
Lake country
sketches by H. D. Rawnsley (1903)
Lake
District history by W. G. Collingwood (1921)
Lake scenery
of England
by J. B. Pyne (1859)
Lake-country
rambles by W. T. Palmer (1902)
Lakeland
words; a collection of dialect words and phrases as used in Cumberland and
Westmorland, with illustrative sentences in the North Westmorland dialect by B.
Kirkby (1898)
Lays and
legends of the English lake country, with copious notes by J. P. White (1873)
Leaves from
the lake side (1854)
Legends of
Westmorland and the Lake district - unknown
author (1874)
Letters from
the Lake poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, to Daniel Stuart, editor of the Morning
post and the Courier, 1800-1838. Printed for private circulation (1889)
Life and
nature at the English lakes by H. D. Rawnsley (1902)
Literary
associations of the English lakes Vols. 1 & 2 by H. D. Rawnsley (1894)
Literary
celebrities of the English lake-district by F. Sessions (1905)
Middleton's
illustrated handbook to Grasmere (1894)
Months at the
Lakes by H. D. Rawnsley (1906)
Motor ways in
lakeland by G.
D. Abraham (1913)
Observations,
relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts
of England; particularly the mountains,
and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland by W. Gilpin (1788)
On Cambrian
and Cumbrian hills - pilgrimages to Snowdon
and Scafell by H. S. Salt (1922)
On the drifts
of the west and south borders of the Lake District,
and on the three great granite dispersions by D. Mackintosh (1871)
Past and
present at the English lakes by H. D. Rawnsley (1916)
Pre-historic
remains in the Lake District by W. K. Dover
(1880)
Rambles at
home (1840)
Recollections
of the Lakes and the Lake
Poets Coleridge,
Wordsworth and Southey by T. De Quincy (1862)
Reminiscences
of the English Lake
Poets by T. De Quincy
(1907)
Rock-climbing
in the English Lake District by O. G. Jones (1900)
Round and
about Ambleside (1921)
Round the Lake Country
by H. D. Rawnsley (1909)
Shap Fells by
J. Mortimer (1904)
Sidelights on
mediaeval Windermere by A. P. Brydson (1911)
Some old wells,
trees, and travel-tracks of Wordsworth's parish by G. Middleton (1918)
Sonnets at
the English lakes by H. D. Rawnsley (1881)
Specimens of
the Westmorland dialect; consisting of T' reysh bearin, and Jonny Shippard's
journa to Lunnan by T. Clarke (1865)
Tales &
legends of the English lakes and mountains by W. Armistead (1852)
Tales and
legends of the English lakes by W. Armistead (1891)
The angler in
the Lake district; or, Piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions in
Westmoreland and Cumberland
by J. Davy (1857)
The annals of
a quiet valley by J. Watson (1894)
The Book of
Coniston by W. G. Collingwood (1906)
The church of Grasmere a history by M. L. Armitt
(1912)
The echoes of
the lakes and mountains or, Wonderful things in the Lake
District (being a companion to the guides) (1880)
The English
lake district. With maps, plans of towns, and illustrations by H. Martineau
(1876)
The English Lake district as interpreted in the
poems of Wordsworth by L. E. Whitten (1921)
The English
lake district as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth by W. A. Knight (1891)
The English Lake district fisheries by J. Watson
(1899)
The English
lake land (1876)
The English
lakes by A. G. Bradley (1910)
The English
lakes by W. T. Palmer (1908)
The
folk-speech of Cumberland
and some districts adjacent; being short stories and rhymes in the dialects of
the west border counties by A. C. Gibson (1891)
The geology
of the country around Kendal, Sedbergh, Bowness, and Tebay by W. T. Aveline
(1888)
The geology
of the country between Applby, Ullswater, and Haweswater by J. R. Dakyns (1897)
The geology
of the northern part of the English lake district by J. C. Ward (1876)
The
glaciation of the Northern part of the Lake-District by J. C. Ward (1873)
The History
of the Church of Crosthwaite,
Cumberland by
H. Manders (1853)
The lake
country by E. L. Linton (1864)
The lakes of England
by W. F. Topham (1869)
The Old Man;
or, Ramblings round Conistone by A. C. Gibson (1849)
The River
Duddon, a series of sonnets Vaudracour and Julia and other poems. To which is
annexed, a topographical description of the country of the lakes, in the north
of England
by W. Wordsworth (1820)
The scenery
and poetry of the English lakes. A summer ramble by C. Mackay (1852)
The tourist's
picturesque guide to Furness Abbey and Windemere district by G. Shaw -
publisher (1872)
The
Westmoreland dialect in four familiar dialogues, in which an attempt is made to
illustrate the provincial idiom by A. C. Wheeler (1840)
The worthies
of Cumberland
by H. Lonsdale (1867)
The worthies
of Westmorland or, Notable persons born in that county since the reformation by
G. Atkinson (1849)
Through the
Wordsworth country; a companion to the Lake
district by W. Knight (1906)
Topographical
description of the country of the Lakes in the north of England by W. Wordsworth (1820)
Views in the English Lake District - from original drawings
by T. R. Rowbotham (1875)
Views of the
English lakes by W. Banks (1873)
Walking in
the Lake district by H. H. Symonds (1921)
Westmoreland
and Cumberland
dialects. Dialogues, poems, songs, and ballads by J. R. Smith (1839)
Wild Lakeland by M. Macbride
(1922)
Windermere, a
poem by J. Palmer (1798)
Wordsworthshire,
an introduction to a poet's country by E. Robertson (1911)
An absolute must
for anyone with an interest in The Lake District, Cumberland, Westmorland and the northwest of England
– an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!
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