GEORGIANA CAVENDISH SPENCER . DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE: Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard A POEM by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire ::: Passage du Mont Saint-Gothard POEME Paris (1816) Privately posthum published by Lady Elizabeth Foster ('Dearest Bess').Imprimerie Lithographique de Charles de Lasteyrie, rue du Bac N° 58, Text completely lithographed by Moulin (‘Moulin script.’)

GEORGIANA CAVENDISH SPENCER . DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE: Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard A POEM by Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire ::: Passage du Mont Saint-Gothard POEME Paris (1816) Privately posthum published by Lady Elizabeth Foster ('Dearest Bess').Imprimerie Lithographique de Charles de Lasteyrie, rue du Bac N° 58, Text completel lithographed by Moulin (‘Moulin script.’), in-4to, (312x235mm), 2 ll. (half-title & titlepage) and V (Épitre) (+ 1 p. (Envoi)) + 3 p. (blanc - fasc. of writing - Dedication to l’Abbé de Lille) + 44 p. (+ 1 p. blanc) + 20 lithographic plates, (printed entirely by lithographed stones), Full morocco, spine on 5 raised bands richly gilt, bookcovers with gilt frames & ornaments, guards of red silk, inside binding with richly gilt frame and elaborate ornaments on which is placed the bookplate in the middle, gilt edges. First illustrated edition, privately printed in unnumbered 50 copies only, with the 20 lithographic plates of views, 19 after paintings by Elizabeth Foster and 1 after Lady Blessington. Elizabeth Foster’s paintings (tody in the Morgan Library NYC) were re-drawn by J.E. Deshayes and Alexandre Pegnault for transfer to lithographic stones and it is Elizabeth Foster (her best friend) who almost certainly commissioned this lithographically illustrated edition. Comte de Lasteyrie, the printer (1759-1849), was one of the important pioneers of the art of lithography. Copies are known with the 2 portraits of Georgiana and Elizabeth, which are not included herein. The Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish (of Chatsworht, Derbyshire) made a Grand Tour with Lady Foster and they passed through Italy to Switzerland, writing this poem and making the paintings in 1793. The Duchess died in 1806; Elizabeth married the widowed Duke; and when the Duke died in 1811 Elizabeth moved to Italy until 1824. During 1818-1819, however, she lived in Paris and would have arranged for the printing of this work there, entirely in lithography. This Paris edition was printed in 50 copies only; it is one of the few poems in English to celebrate William Tell and one of the first English poems to praise Switzerland and popularise the Alps for the English tourist and artist. De Lasteyrie set up his lithographic press in Paris in 1816, he moved to rue du Bac 58 in June 1817.By 1825 Lasteyrie had moved to rue St. Marc no. 8. The original edition was first printed in the Morning Chronicle in 1799, the Duchess of Devonshire’s poem ‘The passage of the mountain of St. Gothard’ appears not to have been published in book form until 1802, at which time three editions appeared (in quarto, octavo and duodecimo), each of them printing Delille’s translation alongside the English text. The earliest of these is generally considered to be the quarto edition, all editions are unknown to Perret’s, ‘Guide des livres sur la montagne’ and are very rare indeed. * TRAVELOGUE.Maybe the pirst Paris printed book in Lithography,this is one of the earliest examples of lithographic printing, and also one of only two books of a literary nature printed entirely by lithography (text and plates) before 1830. You will find notes of the Duchess’s tour of Switzerland in De Beer, ‘Travellers in Switzerland‘ under 1792 and 1793. Collation of the views: 1) Magadine (lake and peaks) / 2) Tesino (road, river, peaks) / 3) Tesino (river and peaks) / 4) Première vue de St. Gothard (forested road into gorge) / 5) Dazio grande (bridge over rapids) / 6) Airolo (village, rapids and gorge) / 7) Tesino (gorge, river, bridge) / 8) Tesino (rocky gorge, bridge over rapids) / 9) Hospice / 10) Padre Lorenzo (this from a painting by Lady Blessington) / 11) Lac et Hospice / 12) Reuss / 13) Vallon d’Urseren / 14) Gallerie d’Urseren / 15) Pont du Diable / 16) Near Altdorf (path and river) / 17) Altdorf / 18) Chapelle de Guillaume Tell / 19) Uri at Schwitz (lake and peaks) / 20) Lucerne (rural view). Not in Perret -; cf. Charles Warren’s article “An Alpine bibliographical curiosity” in the Alpine Journal of 1984; de Beer, Travellers in Switzerland 1792 and 1793. ::::: For completely researched data see Michal Twyman EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS Cambridge University Press Early Lithographed Books 1.196 chapter 9 books with pictures p.166-173 ::::: cf. for instance par exemple zum beispiel peter helm exp kst value LADY CAVENDISH DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE : BOOK (1816) RRR CHARLES DE LASTEYRIE DU SAILLANT (1816) MICHAEL TWYMAN ELB Early Lithographed Books 1.196 chapter 9 books with pictures p.166-173 the first publication to be discussed here though the publication is undated, the address of its imprint 'Imprimerie Lithographique de C. de Lasteyrie rue du Bac No.58' suggests that it must have been printed between 1817 and 1825 an incomplete copy of the book in cambridge university library has a letterpress title-page dated 1816 such evidence , taken along with the style of the lithographic work, suggests a dating nearer 1817 than 1825 ² ² The British Library catalogues and H.W. Lowndes, The bibliographer's manual of English literature (revised by H.G.Bohn, London, 1864), both give the date of this lithographed edition as 1802. Such a date is quite out of the question. 1802 may have stemmed from a transposition of the last two digits of 1820, a date which would accord with lithographic evidence, or it may have been a straightforward confusion with an earlier letterpress edition. The Dictionary of National Biography gives the date as 1816. Both Lowndes and Martin, Bibliographical catalogue , claim that only fifty copies were printed and that they were not for sale PETER HELM SACHVERSTÄNDIGER KUNSTHÄNDLER 0700 PRINTS BVS G+ BVS art recherche PETER HELM research kunst KST 0700 EXP Sachverständige sind geradezu das Urbild eines freien Berufs TRANSATLANTIC www

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