A Holiday in Iceland.

First Edition. Uncommon, six copies only on COPAC. Attractively and innovatively produced private publication recording a pleasure trip to Iceland undetaken on board the Danish mail steamer Phoenix in 1878. Van Gruisen & Son were well-established organ and piano manufacturers in Liverpool.

8vo. Mounted original albumen print frontispiece and four other similar plates. Later attractive Yacht Library bookplate of M. Botterill’s “Molly”, to the front pastedown. Free endpapers streakily browned, but otherwise a very good copy indeed in the original seagreen decorative cloth, panelling and title blocked in black to the upper board, title gilt to the spine, very light shelf-wear.