Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire

Item author: Reverend Joseph Wilkinson
Item date: 1810
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 15,000
Item date acquired: 1996
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

With MS addenda by William and Mary Wordsworth, who also wrote the introduction to the book, later published separately. In the 1810 text Wordsworth first makes the case for a National Park to be developed to help preserve the Lake District in its state of natural purity and simplicity. Illustrated at p35 of AR

Item Provenance
Presentation copy inscribed by Joseph Wilkinson to Wordsworth