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Saturday, 19 June 2010

Valentine (undated) reffrence

Picturesque England 

Its Landmarks and Historic Haunts, 
as described in Lay and legend,
Song and Story

Compiled and Edited 
By L Valentine

Published by Frederick Warn and Co.:London and New York

(Undated - probably Victorian / 19th century)

[from Matthew Spong who put this onto the internet] -

I found this volume on a table at a church fete in Beecroft when I was around 14 years old. It was scanned from the original volume, converted to text, corrected and converted into a website over a long period from 1999 to 2004. The work was begun on a Powermac 8100 and finished on a generic PC running Red Hat Linux. I would like to dedicate this work to the memory of my father Neill Spong, who never went to England, had no interest in English history, but who loved old books and respected hard work and perseverence.
Matthew Spong, April 2004

http://www.mspong.org/picturesque/contents.html

2 comments:

  1. Hi, this is Matthew Spong. This book is in the public domain and you can freely use it in your blog.

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