The Conway in the Stereoscope.

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VG, 1st ed, 20 pls, 1860. In red 'morocco' gilt embossed cloth, beveled edges, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Spine, gilt title & tooling, edges bumped & worn. Internally, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), [2], [1], 2-187 pp, [1], (16) adverts dated January 1, 1860, complete with 20 pls (stereographs-B&W photo's), all showing the river Conway in North Wales and the areas around it, red endpapers, Notice tipped to fep, ink name to half title (Amery), tissue guarded frontis, hinges strengthened, a.e.g, printed by John Edward Taylor of Little Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, faintest of edge browning. Uncommon. (192*121 mm).(Allibone 453). James Bridge Davidson, a lawyer. & Roger Fenton, Photographer - see ODNB. Victorian stereoscopic travel books like this were part of a mid-19th-century boom in armchair tourism. They allowed readers to visit" distant landscapes in three dimensions when real travel was expensive or impractical."