Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Jan van Goyen, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Jan Steen. A motor tour of the Dutch canals and windmill country with a chaperone who is not what she claims and a chauffeur who is somebody else again. The Williamsons drove the route and the Netherlands in the book can be followed on a map. This edition is bound with sixty plates of seventeenth-century painting, among them works by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jan van Goyen and Simon de Vlieger, showing ferries, homesteads and windmills.

Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) and Alice Muriel Williamson (1869-1933) were a British husband-and-wife writing partnership. He founded Black and White magazine; she wrote much of the actual prose. Together they produced a long series of motoring romances. Their works include The Lightning Conductor, The Chauffeur and the Chaperon, and The Car of Destiny.