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RAMBLES IN THE RHINE PROVINCE

   
   
   

SEDDON, John P.  RAMBLES IN THE RHINE PROVINCE.                                      

London: John Murray, 1868. 4to. Publisher's cloth. xv, 156 pages, 14 albumen plates, 2 chromolithographs, and 4 tinted woodcuts. First edition. [Gernsheim, 425].

Illustrated with a curious mixture of photographs, chromolithographs, and woodcuts, Seddon's book on German architecture was heavily influenced by Ruskin, the result of two architectural tours of the Rhine.  The photograph are by Cundall and Fleming, in addition there are seventy illustrations in the text.  The publisher's binding was most probably designed by Seddon.  Recased, else very good.

 

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