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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> FRANCIS FRITH Victorian founder of the world-famous photographic archive was a complex and fascinating man. A devout Quaker and a highly successful Victorian businessman he was both philosophic by nature and pioneering in outlook. By 1855 Francis Frith had already established a wholesale grocery business in Liverpool and sold it for the astonishing sum of ?200000 which is the equivalent today of over ?15000000. Now a multi-mil- lionaire he was able to indulge his passion for travel. As a child he had pored over trav- el books written by early explorers and his fancy and imagination had been stirred by family holidays to the sublime mountain regions of Wales and Scotland. ‘What a land of spirit-stirring and enriching scenes and places!’ he had written. He was to return to these scenes of grandeur in later years to ‘recapture the thousands of vivid and tender memories’ but with a different purpose.