GILLY, William Stephen. Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses, London: R. Gilbert for C. & J. Rivington, 1824, 4°, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS WIFE, lithographed frontispiece by Nicholson, 2 folding lithographed maps by B.R. Baker, 9 lithographed plates, 3 lithographed facsimiles of manuscripts (one slightly cropped at outer margin), contemporary diced russia, covers with gilt roll-tooled border (recently rebacked). [Not in Abbey; Lowndes II, 894] Provenance: authors' wife (inscription on title, letter to the author bound in at back); Alice Blakely (author's daughter; autograph letter mounted on front pastedown); General Adair (gift from Alice Blakely; letters on front endpapers)

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GILLY, William Stephen. Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses, London: R. Gilbert for C. & J. Rivington, 1824, 4°, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS WIFE, lithographed frontispiece by Nicholson, 2 folding lithographed maps by B.R. Baker, 9 lithographed plates, 3 lithographed facsimiles of manuscripts (one slightly cropped at outer margin), contemporary diced russia, covers with gilt roll-tooled border (recently rebacked). [Not in Abbey; Lowndes II, 894] Provenance: authors' wife (inscription on title, letter to the author bound in at back); Alice Blakely (author's daughter; autograph letter mounted on front pastedown); General Adair (gift from Alice Blakely; letters on front endpapers)

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A remarkable association copy of this rare first edition. The author's inscription is dated 3rd November 1827 and relates how he first came to know his wife.

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