publisher's original royal blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration
VERY RARE with just one copy located in the UK at the University of Wales
also frontispiece
Large hardback catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art New York in May-August 2005
The author's preface to this edition is dated April 1841
The Pyrenees. A Description of Summer Life at French Watering Places. With upwards of one hundred illustrations by Gustave Doré and a map of the Central Pyrenees textiles publisher's original royal blue boardsLudgate Hill, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1867. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full calf, gilt, prize binding signed and dated (Jan. 18 1893), with raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, and a small circular binder's device at the foot of inside lower board. 8vo (9. 5 x 6. 5 ins); pp xvi, 326, [4]; 42 engraved plates, including additional titlepage, one map, and numerous vignette engravings through the text. All edges gilt. Spine faded and corner tips
