8vo. Volume I: xv, 333 pp., / Volume II: xi, 325 pp., contemporary red half morocco with marbled boards, re-backed, slightly rubbed round edges, previous owner's ink stamp to first 2 leaves, browning to endpapers, otherwise set in very good condition, Tinsley Brothers, London, first edition, 1877.

Synopsis

An account of the author’s 1000-mile journey with his wife through the Middle East in 1875. Sir Arthur Arnold (1833–1902) was a radical politician and writer. In 1867 a tour in the south and east of Europe first aroused his philo-Hellenic sympathies, which were conspicuous in his descriptive letters ‘From the Levant,’ published in 1868, and to which he was constant through life. In the same year Arnold became first editor of the ‘Echo,’ a new evening paper, and one of the earliest to be sold for a halfpenny, which attained great success under his control. He resigned the post in 1875, soon after the purchase of the paper by Albert Grant, known as Baron Grant, and immediately started on a journey through the East with his wife, riding the whole length of Persia, a distance of more than 1000 miles. His ‘Through Persia by Caravan ‘ (1877), dedicated to Earl and Countess Granville, gives a spirited account of his adventures.
Bibliographic reference: Ghani, p. 21.