Red covers with gilt titles and illustration to front and spine. Neat inscription: Herbert E Adams, 11th Febry 1886. Tissue guarded fronticepiece plus 314 illustrations. 

Size = 19.5cm x 14cm.  Pages = xxiii + 564 pp Chapters + 32 pp Appendices + pp. publisher's List of Books (January 1885)

The author's narrative covers visits to Germany, Switzerland and the Alps, also touching on France and Northern Italy.