Henry George Blackburn

The Pyrenees: a Description of Summer Life at French Watering Places ... with ... Illustrations by Gustave Dore, and a New Map of Th Henry George Blackburn

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Pyrenees: a description of summer life at French watering places ... With ... illustrations by Gustave Dore, and a new map of the Central Pyrenees. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Blackburn, Henry George; Dore, Gustave; 1867. xvi. 326 p.; 8 . 10173.ee.21. Contributor Bio:  Dore, Gustave Gustave Dore (1832-1883) est l'un des plus grands graveurs de tous les temps. Bien qu'il fut egalement peintre et sculpteur, ce sont ses gravures pour des classiques de la litterature qui lui ont valu une reconnaissance mondiale, toujours d'actualite. Ses gravures les plus connues ont illustre des oeuvres telles que "La Divine Comedie" de Dante. Ces dernieres gravures continuent d'inspirer aujourd'hui les dessinateurs de bandes dessinees, et les cineastes.