Mr. Fifield's New List 



A New Revised and Enlarged Edition, entirely re-set, of 



Alps and Sanctuaries 



of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 

 By Samuel Butler 



Author of " Erewhon," "The Way of All Flesh," etc. 



With 85 Illustrations by the Author, H. F. Jones and 

 Charles Gogin. 



Large crotvn Svo. Cloth gilt. c,s. net, postage 4^. 



An entirely new and popular edition of Samuel Butler's de- 

 lightful travel book, originally published in 1 881, will be welcomed 

 by all Butlerians. The cumbrous and heavy form and the high 

 price prevented the first edition from having a speedy sale, but to 

 the wise who ignored these things the volume was a source 

 of infinite pleasure and amusement. Nowhere is Butler's 

 humour and humanity so well displayed as in these descrip- 

 tions of North Italy and the Italian Alps. Mr. R. A. Streat- 

 feild, in preparing the new edition, has incorporated Butler's last 

 alterations and additions, including an entirely new chapter and an 

 inimitable descriptive index found in MS. The illustrations 

 exhibit Butler's skill as a black and white artist. The blocks are 

 interesting examples of early photo engraving. The type of the 

 volume has been entirely re-set, a light paper of good quality 

 employed, and the price is five shillings instead of a guinea. 



The Times, in its Essay on Butler, 1 908, says : — " ' Alps and 

 Sanctuaries ' and ' Ex Voto ' are concerned with the mountain 

 shrines of Piedmont and the Ticino, a country to which Butler 

 returned to again and again and knew intimately. They are far 

 more than a description of exquisite places and little-known 

 monuments of a fine local art. They brim over with the 

 author's swift mocking laughter, as well as with his innumerable 

 fads and fancies. Anyone who wishes to make Butler's acquaint- 

 ance should begin with the first of these two books. In no other 

 did he write with a freer, fuller, more felicitous self-abandonment." 



London : A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn, E.C. 



