In Praise of Switzerland

Description

Published by Constable & Company London, 1912, 1st Edition, top edge gilt, foxing especially edges and a few pages internally, slight marks boards, small rubber stamp mark on title page, V.G.   Edward Harold Spender (1864-1926) was a British Liberal Party politician, author, climber, journalist and lecturer.   This is an ‘Attractive anthology’ (Neate), with excerpts from the writings of  eminent climbers and poets of mainly the 19th and early 20th century, including, amongst others, Whymper, Tyndall, Albert Smith, Rey, Conway, Tennyson, De Saussure, Balmat and A.E.W. Mason.