[STALEY, Finetta]. Autumn Rambles; or, Fireside Recollections of Belgium, the Rhine, the Moselle, German Spas, Switzerland, the Italian Lakes, Mont Blanc, and Paris. (Written by a Lady, for Private Circulation in Aid of the Rochdale Relief Fund). Rochdale: Printed by E. Wrigley and Son, 1863.
FIRST EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 12 x 1.5 cm); pp. vii, 217. English text. Bound in publisher's original decorative covers; all page edges gilt; yellow endpapers. Condition: VERY GOOD. Slight lean to spine, rubbing to spine ends, and previous owner details to front endpaper, otherwise an excellent example of this extremely rare title.
Notes: Title to spine ‘Autumn rambles upon the continent in 1862’. The relief fund referred to in the long title was part of the larger movement throughout Lancashire addressing the problems within the cotton trade. COPAC: BM, NLS, BOD. Global Odyssey: a bibliography of travel literature before 1940, page 201. Not in Rochdale Local Studies catalogue online.
