MACKENZIE, Harriet D. S. “History of Switzerland” [D. Lothrop & Co., 1881]

MACKENZIE, Harriet D. S. Switzerland.

Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1881. First edition. 7.5” x 5.25”, 585pp with one hundred illustrations. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt and black stamped, issued as part of Lothrop’s Library of Entertaining History, with decorative alpine-themed cover design and gilt spine lettering. Edited by Arthur Gilman. Some rubbing and scuffing to cloth, heavier wear and fraying at spine ends, particularly at the crown, corners gently worn. Hinges reinforced with white binding tape. Good+.

A well-produced nineteenth-century popular history of Switzerland, combining accessible historical narrative with abundant engravings of Alpine scenery, architecture, and national legend. These Lothrop cloth bindings display especially well, and this series has a reliable collector base among buyers of decorative Victorian travel and juvenile history books.