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 Author Name: Anonymous
Title: Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, the Illustrations of Mr. E. Whymper, FRGS
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 7 x 10"
Publisher: London The Religious Tract Society
Illustrator: Whymper, Mr. E(dward)
Seller ID: 003472
214,(2)pp inc chromolithograph of Mont Blanc (frontis) and many b&w woodcuts and plates 1st Ed. Undated but apparently 1860s. Covers (Original red cloth with bright gilt titles and vignette of a woman on a horse with an open book in her hands to upper cover, gilt titles and motif to spine and blind-stamped motif to rear board) are lightly soiled and are slightly worn at corners. Spine is split full length at rear joint. AEG. Ex-Libris bookplate of Henry George Watkins with the slogan "Carpe Diem" and a stag's head topped by a bird, is tipped in (See feature article about Whymper and Watkins at http://www.star-dot-star.co.uk/books/SwissPix.html) Textblock is very clean and tight except for frontis being foxed and inked inscription to title page reading, "Marie N(?)elvise de Mailly Reighley". No author listed, but variously attributed to The Baptist minister, Samuel Manning. Manning also authored "Those Holy Fields. Palestine Illustrated by Pen and Pencil," "English Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil," "American Pictures: Drawn with Pen and Pencil," "The Land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai: illustrated by pen and pencil", etc. Whymper was a Wood-engraver and mountain climber, probably best know for having made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Born in London. In 1892 The Royal Geographical Society conferred on Whymper one of their Royal Medals in recognition of the fact that, apart from his mountaineering exploits, "he had largely corrected and added to our geographical and physical knowledge of the mountain systems of Ecuador, fixed the position of all the great Ecuadorian mountains, produced a map constructed from original theodolite observations extending over 250 miles, and ascertained seventy altitudes by means of three mercurial barometers."
Art, Painting, Graphics, Edward Whymper, Marie N de Mailly Reighley, Engraving, Switzerland, Henry George Watkins, RTS, Evangelical
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