Conway (William Martin). The Alps Described by W. Martin Conway Painted by A.D. Mc. Cormick. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. In-4°, publisher's full cream cloth binding, polychrome decoration depicting Mont Blanc on front cover, title and decoration on spine (creases and rubbing to spine). First edition, in the deluxe edition on large paper limited to 300 copies numbered and signed by the publisher (this one is no. 224). Illustrated with 70 colour plates (reproductions of Mc. Cormick's watercolours). A beautiful classic, superbly illustrated, uncommon and sought-after in a deluxe edition. Also by the same author: The Alps from end to end. Westminster, Constable, 1895. Large in-8, half vellum binding, title in gilt lettering painted on spine, untrimmed (Binding of the period). First edition, illustrated with one hundred drawings by A. D. Mc Cormick (frontispiece, title vignette and ninety-eight plates hors texte). One of 100 copies of the deluxe edition on fine paper, justified in ink by the publisher (no. 14). An account of a major crossing of the Alps from the Mediterranean to the Austrian Alps, from Mont Viso to Gross Glockner. A very fine copy.