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BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE)
The Peaks and Valleys of the Alps, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE)

The Peaks and Valleys of the Alps, additional tinted lithographed title, 21 plates chromolithographed by J.H. Lowes after Walton, each mounted as issued with printed caption in margin, tissue guards, one leaf of text loose, additional title with small repair at blank fore-margin and browning, light arc of dampstaining in blank upper border margin of last 15 plates, contemporary half morocco gilt, titled in gilt on upper cover (rubbed, repair to upper cover touching a few letters), g.e., folio (559 x 360mm.), Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868

Footnotes

A fine series of chromolithographed views of, primarily, the Western Alps, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Viso, Aosta Valley, Dent Du Midi, and The Grivola. In 1862 William Matthews, the founder of the Alpine Club, first commissioned the landscape artist Elijah Walton to travel to the Alps, and for the next five years he journeyed to various parts of the region to paint. The text for Peaks and Valleys is by the geologist T.G. Bonney who, having himself made nine visits to the Alps, testifies to the Ruskinian authenticity of Walton's views, praising them favourably to "photographs of mountains [which] are rarely satisfactory, and generally make them appear lower and far less impressive than they really are..." (Introduction).

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