First subscriber’s edition. Folio, iv, [i], [48]pp., 12 chromo-lithographed plates after Walton, mounted on thick paper. With descriptive text and a protective blank (one detached), preliminary pages spotted, and several plates with minor spotting. Library plates, presentation label, “withdrawn stamp” (ex Nottingham Reference Library) on front paste-down, all edges gilt. Re-backed in modern burgundy morocco preserving the original purple gilt decorated cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered and decorated. Elizah Walton was a talented artist “noted for his truthful rendering of rock structure and mountain form” (Neate). The Alpine Club commissioned him in the 1860s to make paintings of the Alps, and his work was later exhibited at the British Museum. “In some of these alpine watercolours, there is a sharpness of outline delineating mountain peaks combined with a brilliancy of colour which has great vitality and freshness” (DNB). Coloured plates in order: 1. The Gletscherhorn, from above Interlaken. 2. The Town and Castle of Thun. 3. The Viescherhorn and Unter Grindelwald Glacier. 4. The Jungfrau, from near Interlaken. 5. Sunset on the Lake of Lucerne. 6. The Schreckhorn, from near Grindelwald. 7. The Staubbach, from Lauterbrunnen. 8. The Monch, from above the Lake of Thun. 9. The lake of Lucerne - Pilatus by Moonlight. 10. The Doldenhorn, from the Lake of Thun. 11. The Wetterhorn - Evening. 12. The Eiger, from the North-East.