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Abbott, G. F.
The Tale of a Tour in Macedonia.
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London;
Date of Publication: 1903
Stock Code: 15423
First edition. Octavo, pp., x, [2], 343, [1], 31, [1], plus tissue-guarded photolithographic frontispiece, six further plates, and folding map. Collated and complete. Publisher’s original pebble-grain navy cloth; titled in gilt to spine; borders in blind to boards; white end-papers. Corners bumped and rubbed; sunning to spine; light mottling to cloth; rubbing to joints; binding otherwise strong and square. Spotting to tissue-guards otherwise internally clean. A very good copy. A scarce ethnographic study by British journalist and war correspondent George Frederick Abbott (1874-1947). This book describes Abbot’s time in Macedonia in 1900, which was at that time a province of the Ottoman Empire. Sent by Cambridge University, Abbott travelled from Thesaloniki to Serres, Sidirokastro, Drama, and Meleniko. £150.00