Lecture Entitled :- “Jottings on My Journeys in Switzerland.” Illustrated and interspersed with songs.

Name: Lecture Entitled :- “Jottings on My Journeys in Switzerland.” Illustrated and interspersed with songs.
Author: Smith, J. Manton.

Book Description

Fourth Thousand. 8vo. pp. 64, [4], ads.; 19 illusts.; some embrowning to endpapers and first and final leaves of text, contemporary presentation inscription to flyleaf with dated inkstamp (1898), else very good in the original red cloth, a.e.g.

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The author’s account of his visit to Lucerne, Rigi, Pilatus, Altdorf, Andermatt, Meiringen, Grindelwald, the Wengern Alp, Berne, Zermatt and Basle. Along the way, Manton Smith mentions the various peaks and Alpine sights, albeit interfused with religious sentiments. 6pp of the book are given over to musical settings of the author’s songs, the final 5 leaves have advertisements. The book is rare, with only two copies of the book’s first edition listed by COPAC (BL, National Library of Scotland, Spurgeon’s College), and none by Worldcat.

Author Smith, J. Manton.

Date [1896]

Binding Original cloth, gilt

Publisher To be had of J. Manton Smith

Condition See description

Pages 64, [4], ads

Price: £175.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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