Switzerland illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work

by W. H. Bartlett by William Beattie

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Engraved titles in each volume a little foxed , 106 steel-engraved plates very clean after Bartlett, fold. lithographic map of Switzerland at back of Vol. II. 2 vols. 4to. Bound in full contemporary purple morocco, a.e.g. Fine. Ray, England, 65; The heyday of engraving on steel was the second quarter of the nineteenth century. . . . The indefatigable Bartlett was the chief producer of volumes of steel-engraved views. For many years he

• Binding: Leather

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