JOURNAL OF SIX WEEKS' ADVENTURES IN SWITZERLAND, PIEDMONT, AND ON THE ITALIAN LAKES. JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, 1856
London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street-Square, 1856. First edition. 8vo. (6), 123, (1) pp. Folding frontispiece map engraved by E. Weller, with colored lines showing the itinerary and the part of the route traveled on foot. This copy inscribed on the half-title in December 1856 by Longman to Mrs. Charles Dickens. Longman (1813-1877) was a member of the multi-generation British publishing family which had established itself in the 18th century; Catherine Dickens (1815-1879) was the wife of Charles Dickens, and the author of an 1851 book on domestic management entitled "What Shall We Have for Dinner?," published under the pseudonym “Lady Maria Clutterbuck.” Fairly uncommon work, OCLC locating but 11 copies, five in the United States (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UCLA, American Alpine Club). Later three-quarter leather (corners repaired at tips) and brown cloth, rebacked (original spine laid down), top edge red. Still a very good copy of an uncommon privately printed tour of the Alps. Item #66718
Price: $1,500.00