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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.