A Tour Through Northern Europe: The Famous Cities, Parks, Buildings And Palaces, As Seen And Described

John L. Stoddard

Edité par The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio, 1899

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First Edition (SD). Very rare book, particularly this 1899 first edition. You can see the covers in the photos. They have held up pretty well. The only significant wear is at the spine ends where there is slight loss and small tears. There is thin rub-through in a few places on the front top edge and in one place on the rear top edge, none on the middle and bottom edges. All four corners have spots of rub- through. The page edges look very clean. Significantly, this heavy book is solidly bound. The pages are nicely, tightly bound from cover to cover. There are no cracks or spaces at the junctures between the inside covers and their end papers. The interior of the book is in very nice shape. There is the tiniest bit of spotting on the blank first front end paper. There are also two small tears off its bottom edge. There are two blank front end papers. The frontispiece photograph of the author is in very good condition, very clean, one tiny tear off its outer edge, far from the photograph itself. The title page looks very good. The first page of the Table Of Contents has a tiny tear off its bottom edge, far from the print. I didn't notice any other tears until the last of the three blank rear end papers, which has a small tear off its outer edge. There is a tiny nick off the bottom edge of a number of consecutive pages, very minor. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I haven't found any instances of soiling. The only flaw of any significance is a mild crease off the bottom corner of all the pages, probably caused by a bump. The crease doesn't come anywhere near the print or illustrations. I didn't see any other creasing, no placeholder creases. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. There is a large illustration on every other page. They will appear to be in excellent condition, very clean, free of wear. Each illustration has a description of similar length beneath it (see photos). The verso of the pages with illustrations are blank. They are all clean. 'John Lawson Stoddard was an American lecturer, author and photographer. He was a pioneer in the use of the stereopticon or magic lantern, adding photographs to his popular lectures about his travels around the world.[ Because he published books related to his travels, he is credited with developing the genre of travelogues. In 1935, Daniel Crane Taylor wrote, 'Stoddard's rise to fame was spectacular and unprecedented in the annals of American entertainers. No American lecturer, musician or actor has ever won so large a following in so short a time. From his second season, almost every lecture was sold out. He filled Daly's Theatre, one of the largest in New York, fifty times a season for ten years. This would mean that Stoddard alone drew approximately one hundred thousand persons in New York each year.' '.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Tour Through Northern Europe: The Famous Cities, Parks, Buildings And Palaces, As Seen And Described
• Éditeur: The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio
• Date de parution: 1899
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Photography
  • Cities, Towns, States, Regions, Places
  • Western Europe