Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North. Translated from the German of Madame Ida Pfeiffer. With Numerous Explanatory Notes and Eight Tinted Engravings . . .
Place and Imprint: London: Ingram, Cooke, 1852.
Edition: One of two editions in English published in 1852.
Bibliographical References: Cf. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 25 and Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 332.
Condition: Binding slightly rubbed; very good copy.
Book ID: 29265
Physical Description
8vo, contemporaray black half morocco, marbled paper boards and endpapers, gilt rules and lettering. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page and six plates.Comments
An early travel narrative by Austrian Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858), “the first full-time woman traveller of all, and one of the very few who never felt the need to qualify her impulse: she travelled because she wanted to see the world, and saw no reason by she shouldn’t” – Robinson. Richard Bentley published an edition of Visit to Iceland in 1852, and that same year Ingram, Cooke published this competing edition by an anonymous translator, with additional material about Icelandic poetry and history, and accompanied by attractive tinted lithographs. This edition is not noted in Robinson or Theakstone. Priority between the Bentley and Ingram, Cooke editions is not known.Price: $200.00
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