Author: BARING-GOULD, S[ABINE],
Title: Iceland: its Scenes and Sagas. First edition.
Description: London, Smith, Elder & co., 1863. Stout 8°., original publ. cloth, large circular gilt tooled decorative vignette on front boards within a thin double-barred gilt line border, repeated on lower outer boards, title in gilt on spine, all edges gilded. (xlviii), 447pp. Chromolithographed frontispiece, 16 other lithographed plates of which in chromolithography (with tissue guards), 19 fairly large illustrations in text of which steel-engravings and after line-drawings, music-scores in text, fold. lithographed map of Iceland, errata printed on verso of page xvii, appendices A-E, author's preface and introduction, list of lithographs and illustrations in text, table of contents, ex-libris pasted on verso of front boards. Detailed account of a tour through Iceland, which was (according to author's preface) twofold, purposed examining scenes famous in Saga, and filling a portfolio with watercolour sketches. A;;endices featuring Ornithologyof Iceland by A. Newton; advice to Sportsmen, by J.W.R.; list of Icelandic plants; list of ICelandic published Sagas; expenses of my Tour in Iceland. A very good copy in original publ. cloth, very clean contents with fine fresh colouring of lithographs. (lower right corner of page 65 clippe, spine-ends skilfully restored).

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