‎GEORGIANA DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE / BERTELLI, Carlo,‎
‎Passage of the Mountain of Saint-Gothard a POEM by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / Passage du Mont Saint-Gothard ... / Passaggio del San Gottardo Introduzione di Carlo Bertelli. (en italien et anglais) 1816. (Reprint with an introduction by Carlo Bertelli transl. by Sarah Thorne.. ‎

‎BSI Banca della Svizzera / Italiana, Milano, Ed. Il Polifilo, 1992, in-4to, 44 p. + 20 planches, cartonnage original ill, avec emboîtage.‎

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‎Reprint from the first illustrated edition (1816 ) with the 20 lithographic plates, done by Count Charles-Philibert de Lasterie in Paris, who founded that same year the first French lithographic printing-office. The original edition was first printed in the Morning Chronicle in 1799, the Duchess of Devonshire's poem ‘The passage of the mountain of St. Gothard’ appears not to have been published in book form until 1802, at which time three editions appeared (in quarto, octavo and duodecimo), each of them printing Delille's translation alongside the English text. The earliest of these is generally considered to be the quarto edition, all editions are unknown to Perret's, ‘Guide des livres sur la montagne’ and are very rare indeed. Perret -; cf. Charles Warren's article "An Alpine bibliographical curiosity" in the Alpine Journal of 1984. ‎