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THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT - RARE BOOK COLLECTION

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 105 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books and documents compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library 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….

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Full List of Books Included:

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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