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THE LAKE OF GENEVA

by Francis Gribble

Illustrated by J. Hardwicke Lewis; May Hardwicke Lewis

Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa. 1909

Almost very good condition. A & C Black Colour Book 20 Shilling Series. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine and and front cover. Top edge gilt. 60 tissue-guarded colour plates. Folding map. 4 page booklist to rear. The rarest of the Black's 20 Shilling Series.

Assumed early edition/reprint in same year as 1st edition - as has 4 page booklist to rear. Spine is browned with a few chips and splits to top; some fraying to cloth. Front board bright and clean. Corners are bumped. Personal gift inscription in pencil to front endpaper. Joints are starting to crack a little. Some foxing present. Plate margins browned. All plates present.

Stock no. 2137434

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Contents

  • Old Geneva
  • The War of Independence
  • The Reformation
  • The Expulsion of the Nuns
  • The Rule of Calvin
  • The Triumph of Theocracy
  • The University
  • Professor Andrew Melvill
  • Theodore de Beze
  • War with Savoy
  • The Escalade
  • An Interval of Quiet
  • Revolutions
  • Literature and Science
  • Saussure
  • Men of Letters
  • Songs and Squibs
  • Religious Revival
  • Romanticism
  • Later Men of Letters
  • Voltaire
  • Voltaire and the Theatre
  • Visitors to Ferney
  • Coppet
  • The Overlordship of Savoy and Berne
  • Emigrants and Immigrants
  • Gibbon
  • Madame de Montolieu-Dr. Tissot
  • Benjamin Constant and Madame de Stael
  • The Revolution
  • The English Colony- The Educational Advantages
  • Nyon
  • The French Shore
  • History of the French Shore - Felix V.
  • St. Francis de Sales
  • Joseph de Maistre
  • The Swiss Riviera
  • The Castle of Chillon
  • Bonivard
  • The Later Life of Bonivard
  • Bonivard's Wives
  • The Later History of Chillon
  • Salvationists at Chillon
  • Vevey
  • The Regicides
  • The Pietists
  • Madame de Warens
  • Byron
  • "Obermann"
  • Doyen Bridel

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