The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men inscribed driven by a deep curiosity

driven by a deep curiosity about the spaces and people living on the fringes of society

With Oliver Messel designed bookplate to verso of first free endpaper

and then the little used Canning Stock Route to Well 48

With the bookplate of Henry James Blaksley laid down on pastedown of vol I

Patrick Hughes (born Birmingham 1939) is the creator of "reverspective"

The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men inscribed driven by a deep curiosityLondon: John Lehmann, 1949. With an introduction by Christopher Sykes. Reissue of 1928 first edition. Original dark blue cloth with the excellent dust jacket by Keith Vaughan, with a couple of short, closed tears. Thirty three photographs through the text. A VG+ copy. A lively account of the a visit to twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. Byron and