Notes and Journal of Travel in Europe, 1804-1805 [Vol. I-III]

Title: Notes and Journal of Travel in Europe, 1804-1805 [Vol. I-III]

Author: Irving, Washington, and William P. Trent

Publication: New York: The Grolier Club, 1921.

Description: Washington Irving's journal of his travels through France, Italy, and Switzerland in 1804-1805, including descriptions of Paris, the Alps, and Naples, complete in three volumes, with an introduction by William P. Trent. First edition of this previously unpublished work. Printed for The Grolier Club by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Limited to 257 copies on rag paper (of which, this is one) and 3 copes on Japanese vellum. Each volume with an added illustrated title page and a second plate, both in color aquatint, designed and etched by Rudolph Ruzicka. Bound in publisher's full blue cloth over boards, stamped in gilt, with top edge gilt. 7 x 4.5 inches; 3 volumes: xliv,167, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates; [8],188, [2] leaves of plates; [8],199, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates. Eight-page prospectus with aquatint title page laid in. From the collection of Arthur Williams Hall (1873-1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his small pencil note to front free endpaper of vol. 1; thence by descent through three generations. Binding with trivial edgewear and slight sunning to spine; very clean interior. Fine.