Letters from an Artist, sojourning on the Continent.

[Horner, Joshua.]

Published by Halifax: Printed for Private Circulation, by Henry Martin, 1841

About this Item

First edition. 12mo. pp. xi, 142; small stain to fore-edge, else good in the original boards, soiled, recently respined with lettering piece. According to the dedication to this work by Henry Martin, Joshua Horner, son of John Horner the Halifax landscape painter, "made arrangements for spending a year or two on the Continent, and chiefly in Italy, with a view of studying those works of the ancient masters with which that classic land of poetry and painting abounds". His letters home to his father were printed by Martin in The Halifax Express, and then grouped together in book form, "a limited impression being struck off, not for publication, but chiefly for the private gratification of Mr. Horner's and my own personal friends" (p. vi). Horner's letters record his visits to Paris, Geneva, Milan, Florence, and Rome, and chapters II-V relate in particular to the Alps and to his visit to Chamonix, where he visited the "Glacier de Bosson", "Mont Fleguire", Montanvert and the Mer de Glace. A brief paragraph describes the "Mode of Ascending Mont Blanc".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters from an Artist, sojourning on the Continent.
• Publisher: Halifax: Printed for Private Circulation, by Henry Martin
• Publication Date: 1841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Alps
  • Mont Blanc
  • Mountaineering