Holograph journal kept by an unnamed traveler journeying from Ramsgate to Brussels with a friend, Henry Hargrave. The author describes the journey in detail, including his impressions of the scenery, the voyage, meals and table manners among the Belgians, and extensive comments on church architecture and Roman Catholic ceremonies he observed in the cities. and On approaching the field of Waterloo, he questions British and Prussian soldiers and Belgians for information on the battle and their parts in it, but notes that the Belgians were "unaccustomed to freedom of sentiment" and did not seem to confide their real opinions of "their old friend Napoleon." the journal ends shortly after the travelers' arrival in Brussels.
Description:
Binding: original mottled notebook boards; spine repaired with tape., Concluding text of the journal is crosswritten on the opening pages in contrasting ink., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Pencil sketches and annotations on endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium--Description and travel, Belgium--History--1814-1830, Belgium--Social life and customs, English Channel--Description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
"Du texte inédit de Samuel Beckett, il a été tiré : 10 exemplaires avec une suite sur Chine numérotées de 1 à 10; 60 exemplaires numérotés de 11 à 70; 12 exemplaires réservés aux collaborateurs numérotés de I à XII. Tous les exemplaires sont tirés sur vélin d'Arches et signés par l'auteur et l'artiste"--Leaf preceding colophon., "Les 12 pointes-sèches de Geneviève Asse ont été tirées sur les presses de l'Atelier Leblanc, et la typographie en Didot corps 16 par Fequet et Baudier, typographes. Achevé d'imprimer à Paris le 27 juin 1972 pour les Editions Georges Visat"--Colophon., Exemplaire 68. 1 v. in case., and Unbound folded sheets, issued in portfolio and cloth box.
Publisher:
Georges Visat
Subject (Name):
Asse, Geneviève, Asse, Geneviève--Autograph, and Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Autograph