Premiers voyages en zigzag, ou, Excursions d'un pensionnat en vacances dans les cantons suisses et sur le revers italien des Alpes

Title: Premiers voyages en zigzag, ou, Excursions d'un pensionnat en vacances dans les cantons suisses et sur le revers italien des Alpes

Author: Töpffer, R. [Rodolphe]

Publication: Paris: Victor Lecou, libraire-éditeur, 1855.

Description: Travelogue by Swiss writer and illustrator Rodolphe Töpffer on his travels with students in the Italian Alps and Switzerland. Fourth edition, in publisher's "cartonnage romantique" binding. 54 black-and-white plates, plus numerous in-text engravings, after drawings by Töpffer and Alexandre Calame. Bound in full black pictorial cloth stamped in red, blue, green, and gilt, with yellow endpapers and all edges gilt, signed by Lenègre. 11 x 7.5 inches; [6], 457, [3] pages (last leaf blank), [54] leaves of plates. Binding with mild edgewear, hinges starting, repaired joints, and some rubbing of the gilt; the interior with foxing throughout and tear to one leaf (repaired with no loss of text). Very Good-.