Cole, Eliza Robinson: A Lady's tour round Monte Rosa with visits to the Italian Valleys of Anzasca, Mastalone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta and Cogne in a series of excursions in the years 1850-56-58. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Roberts 1859. 18,5 x 11,5 cm. With a frontispiece, 3 further chromolithographs and 1 colour title vignette, plus 8 woodcuts in the text. 1 folded map. X pp., 402 pp. Half-leather binding with marbled covers, richly decorated spine, title on the spine and marbled edges. Marbled endpapers.

(The cover is scuffed and bumped. Slightly browned and with a few brown spots. The map has a small tear.)

The first English-language guidebook on this mountain range written by a woman. In an essay published in ‘The Queen of the Alps’ in 1998, R. Cerri and L. Crevaroli spoke respectfully of E. Robinson Cole.