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Baedeker’s Southern France
Karl Baedeker
578pp.; 16.1 x 11.3 cm. Red cloth gilt and blind.
Published Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1907
Part of Sources, I
From the library of A. David Moody
I have said:
‘Here such a one walked.
‘Here Coeur-de-Lion was slain.
‘Here was good singing.
‘Here one man hastened his step.
‘Here one lay panting.’
— Provincia Deserta
One of the two books, alongside Justin Smith’s The Troubadours at Home, that directed Pound’s 1912 walking tour of Southern France; the Baedeker particularly used to plan his routes. Fifth edition, with 33 maps and 49 plans; some light wear to spine.