Francis Miltoun

The Automobilist Abroad (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Francis Miltoun Illustrated, Ill edition

Milburg Francisco Mansfield (1871-? ), who also wrote under the pseudonym Francis Miltoun, was an American author and publisher. He had an apparently short-lived publishing house, M. F. Mansfield and Co., later to be known as M. F. Mansfield and A. Wessels. Around 1900, he travelled with his artist wife Blanche McManus throughout Europe and North Africa. Their collaboration led to a series of travel books, fully illustrated by McManus, which incorporated the newly invented automobile within a typical travelogue of the period. They lived in Paris when not travelling. Mansfield's works include: Ships and Shipping (1903), The Cathedrals of Northern France (1904), Dickens' London (1904), Rambles in Normandy (1905), Rambles in Brittany (1905), Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine (1905), Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (1906), The Automobilist Abroad (1907), Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces (1907), In the Land of Mosques and Minerets (1908), The Spell of Algeria and Tunisia (1908), Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor-Car (1909) and Royal Palaces and Parks of France (1910).