Author: The Dean of Canterbury [Henry Alford]
Title: The Riviera: Pen and Pencil Sketches from Cannes to Genoa
Description: London, Bell & Daldy, 1870 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the Dean of Canterbury's beautifully illustrated guide to the Riviera. The first edition of this work from English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer, Henry Alford.Illustrated with twelve vibrant chromolithographic plates after illustrations from the author, with further monochrome vignettes. Collated, complete.Former owner's pencil inscriptions to rear pastedown.A delightful illustrated guide to the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, and board perimeters, with small losses of cloth to head and tail of front board fore edge. Board perimeters and back strip age toned. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Pencil inscriptions to rear pastedown. Internally, binding strained. Three blank plate guard leaves detached and loosely inserted, and one chromolithograph detached and loosely inserted. Pages generally clean and bright. Good . Ill.: The Dean of Canterbury [Henry Alford]. Good .

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