The Caravan Pilgrim
London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1938. Octavo, original oatmeal cloth, spine lettered in brown, red top edge, original pictorial dust jacket. Spine toned, owner signature and ink-stamp, modest soiling and toning to edge-worn dust jacket. Very good. Item #1341
"NO MATTER WHERE WE CAME ACROSS TINKERS OR GIPSIES DURING OUR WANDERINGS THROUGH ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, THEY ALWAYS SHOWED US THE UTMOST KINDNESS AND POLITENESS"
First edition of The Caravan Pilgrim—Peter F. Anson's illustrated account of the horse-drawn caravan travels of "two amateur vagrants" through rural England and Scotland.
Based on a series of Anson's weekly magazine sketches, this volume was illustrated with a delightful collection of 56 distinctive Church drawings. As Compton Mackenzie explained in a brief Foreword: "The particular object of the pilgrimage was to visit and record with that individual charm of draughtsmanship of which Mr. Anson possesses the secret, the various Catholic churches on that long road to the north." With a warm Dedication to his travelling companion, Anthony Rowe, and a frontispiece photograph of Anson and Rowe (captioned, "The Caravan on the Road"). A short Preface expresses Anson's delight in the "chance meetings with all sorts of strange types of humanity—tramps, tinkers, gipsies, farmers, shopkeepers. and the insight gained intothe daily life of the Catholic church, for in almost every place in which we stopped for more than a day we were entertained by priests, monks, or nuns." This copy with a Catholic Book Club dust jacket (Anson is listed, along with Fathers Woodlock and Pope, as a member of the Selection Committee).
Price: $35.00