THE ALPS by A.D. McCormick - 1904

Published by A & C Black, London, 1911, reprint. Nb dated 1904 but adverts at rear indicate 1911 reprint. Publishers pictorial boards with gilt lettering to front & spine. TEG.9ins x 6.75ins, x, 294pp, 4pp book adverts plus 70 tissue guarded colour plates by A.D. McCormick, captioned on tissue guards. Occasional light foxingto text pages. Overall VG.

London: Adam & Charles Black 1904. (Hardcover) 294pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine and cover, decorated cloth cover, 68 of 70 color plates (plus one). Binding error; lacks pp. 193-200, another set of pp.177-184 substituted, previous owner inscription. Illustrations by A.D. McCormick. Locale: ; Alps; Italy; Switzerland. (Travel, Mountains, Voyages and Travels).

Adam & Charles Black, 1904 pp 294. Illustrated with 70 tissue guarded bright coloured plates. 4to, tan cloth. Cloth very faded, corners slightly bumped, front free endpaper creased and worn at the bottom. Top inner hinge detached, slight tear at top of outer hinge. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the publishers. This is number 193. Neate C100, Inman 221. This copy has the former owner's ink signature of Aileen Smiles, author of a biography of Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), doctor, and later a railway executive who became famous as the author of Self-help (1859) and many other books extolling the virtues of hard work and education.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

T Fisher Unwin 1896. SECOND EDITION, super octavo, mustard buckram boards, leather title plates w/ gilt lettering to spine, brown decoration to front board, teg, frontispiece, xvi + 363pp + 56 plates + large folding map in sleeve to rear, VG- (light bruising to spine + extrems, mild soiling to boards, light tanning + creasing to page edges, crack running length of front gutter, prev owner's name in pencil to front pastedown, moderate foxing to eps, remnant of coloured pencil inscription to fep, light-moderate foxing throughout (heavier to tissue guards & facing pages)

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Paintings by McCormick accompany the text by Conway. Two neat owner names front pastedown, cheaper paper of the endpapers and preliminary pages a little browned, and some very modest scattered foxing, else about fine. An attractive copy.