The Wanderer of Switzerland and Other Poems

First edition. Half title, vi, [5] 12-175 [1]. Bound in full calf leather, with gilt decoration and green title label on spine. Boards a little rubbed at edges, chipped and rounded at spine ends). Previous owner’s name on front paste down endpaper, some mild spotting on prelims. Slight staining at base of first few pages; and the base of the page immediately preceding the poem is chipped and creased, else neat and bright internally. Montgomery’s “The Wanderer in Switzerland” was one of the best sellers of the early 19th century; Altrick estimates some 20,000 copies were printed between in the 20 years after its first publication (Altick, Richard D, Nineteenth-Century English Best-Sellers: A Third List” Studies in Bibliography