Journals of Excursions in the Alps (First Edition)

William Brockedon (1787-1854), an artist by training, first travelled to the alps when he crossed the Simplon on his route to Italy. He returned to Switzerland and the Alps several times during the 1820s. By his own accounts he crossed the Alps nearly sixty times via thirty different routes. This work offers an account of his travels in 1824-5.

First Edition. London: James Duncan, 1833. Small 8vo. Half black Morocco over floral-decorated grey cloth. Pages: xiv, [ii], 376. Frontispiece is a folding map.

Bound in contemporary half black Morocco with decorative cloth boards. Floral illustrations stamped on cover boards in blind. Lettering to spine in gilt. Raised bands to spine, decorated in gilt. Edges and endpapers marbled.

Good. Binding sturdy. Cover boards rubbed with a bit of wearing. Contents in very good condition. Frontis folding map has previous tape repair to tearing and some creasing from previous misfolding. Some very sporadic markings throughout. Otherwise, contents clean and bright, in great order.

Full title: Journals of Excursions in the Alps: the Pennine, Graian, Cottian, Rhetian, Lepotian, and Bernese.

Provenance: From the library of Warwick H. Williams. W. Williams blind stamp to lower title.

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