Sketches in Norway, etched by W. J. Blacklock from drawings made during the Long Vacation.

Name: Sketches in Norway, etched by W. J. Blacklock from drawings made during the Long Vacation.
Author: Skinner, Bruce.

Book Description

First edition. Slim 4to. pp. [i, title-page], [i, dedication leaf], 4ll. printed to rectos only; 12 eng. plates; bookplate of Gunnar Nyhus, very good in contemporary half calf, rather rubbed. A presentation copy, inscribed on title-page “To the Oxford and Camb. Club Bruce Skinner July 1841”, with the Club’s inkstamp to the title-page verso.

Dealer Notes

Schiötz I.965. Skinner graduated from Cambridge in 1839, and made this early visit to Norway. His sketches show scenes on the Hardanger Fjord, Vossevangen, Sjæaren’s Foss, Romsdal’s Horn, Snæhattan and elsewhere.

Author Skinner, Bruce.

Date N.d. [1841].

Binding Contemporary half calf

Publisher London: J. Robinson

Illustrator Bruce Skinner

Condition See description

Price: £1250.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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