
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
( Iceland ) PFEIFFER, Ida
Translated from the German of Madame Ida Pfeiffer. With explanatory Notes. To which are added an Essay on Icelandic Poetry, from the French of M. Bergmann; a Translation of the Icelandic Poem 'The Voluspa'; and a brief Sketch of Icelandic History
REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
Published: Ingram Cooke, 1852
Stock code: 6293
Price: £180.00
8vo., First Edition, with tinted lithograph as frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, and 6 tinted lithographed plates, some light spotting (mainly marginal) as often; original 'National Illustrated Library' series binding of dark green cloth elaborately blocked in blind, pictorial back gilt extra, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy in period binding.
With the contemporary binder's ticket of Leighton, Son & Hodge (who bound many titles in this series) and the contemporary trade ticket of Willmer & Smith of Church St., Liverpool. This work was translated into English expressly for inclusion in Cooke's popular series following the success of the same author's 'Woman's Journey round the World' (1852); to maintain uniformity the more expensive tinted plates were once again adopted here. In the event, the present work proved even more popular with an audience eager for information from exotic lands, and 'Pfeiffer's Iceland' became a travel standard of the nineteenth century. Abbey, Travel 161.