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‎Journal of a Tour through Switzerland and North Italy in 1840. Handwritten account of an englishman’s voyage of leisure with his friends. Richly illustrated with engravings and original drawings.‎

‎ 1840, gr. in-8vo, engraved and handcolored frontispice (Venice) + 195 p. of handwritten text in black ink, richly illustrated with a total of 86 full plates: 60 engravings (of which 6 are handcolored), 10 handcolored lithographs of Venice, 6 engraved maps, 2 watercolors (signed A.W), 1 pencil drawing (signed E.W.) and 7 documents mounted on pages (circular bill, newspaper cuttings, drawing of the arms of Voltaire etc.), 2 Ex libris, of which one from the author with his hw. dedication as a gift to his son in law, Rev. A. J. Boucher., black leather binding, richly gilt on covers and spine, titlepiece on spine, all edges gilt, with decorative metallic clasp and marbled boards, a beautiful book in very fine condition. ‎

‎Unique account of an english banker on his ‘tour of a lifetime’ through the ‘stupendous alps’ to Italy and back. ‘I have always been a great admirer of the works of Nature...’, thus begins the detailed ‘Journal of my late Continental Tour’ handwritten by the banker Charles Woodward of Compton Terrace, Islington in 1840, richly illustrated with views of the visited places and monuments. Most of the swiss views are steel engravings from drawings by H.W. Bartlett (taken from Beattie/Bartlett, Switzerland illustrated, published 1836). For Venice he used, amongst others, some beautiful handcolored lithographs by Giuseppe Kier. Last but not least 3 original drawings can be found, one a pencil drawing of the city of Fribourg. The luxurious and beautiful binding demonstrate the importance of this tour to the author. He states that the journal was written for his friends as a sort of guide for a similar tour and therefore gives a detailed account not only of the journey itself but also of the preparations, the means of transport used along the way, the accomodations, the prices etc. going as far as presenting several original documents such as an example of a ‘circular bill’ (the traveller checks of the time). Woodward is travelling in company of is friends John Joseph Sudlow and a Mr. Billing of Reading. They leave London on 15 July to return home on the 13 September 1840. Their itinerary (with miles travelled, modes of transportation and total money spent per person) figures in the summary at the end (abbreviated): from London by steam boat to Ostend (they couldn’t obtain passports for France) - Cologne - Basle - Lucerne - Rhigi - Flewellyn (Flüelen) - Hospental - Bellinzona - Lugano - Como - Milan - Padua - Venice - Mantua - Cremona - Martigny (by the Simplon) - Borroman Isles - Chamouny - St. Martin - Geneva - Villeneuve (Chillon) - Lausanne - Fribourg - Bern - Thun - Interlaken - Lauterbrunnen - Grindelwald - Meyringen - Brienz - Giessbach - Thun - Bern - Basle - Cologne - Rotterdam - London (for a total of 3128 miles). Thieme/Becker, 2, 554. Image disp.‎