Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit

New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1908. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Margaret Neilson Armstrong. A smart, illustrated first edition of this travelogue of Presbytarian Clergyman and educator Henry Van Dyke. A smart first edition of this early twentieth century travelogue. With a recognisable pictorial binding from American illustrator and designer Margaret Neilson Armstrong, known for her Art Nouveau style book covers. With frontispiece and twelve further full colour illustrated plates depicting scenes described within the work. Collated, complete.An account of a journey through the Holy Land by American author, university professor and clergyman Henry van Dyke. He explains his reticence to visit Palestine lest it should lessen his religious faith, but ultimately expresses that his journey left with him 'a simpler, clearer, surer view of the human life of God'.With topographical and personal descriptions of such locations as Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Damascus.To the front pastedown is a contemporary owner's inscription dated 1912, and former owner's inscription dated 1998.A publisher's advertisement appears to the recto of the half title. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Front board bright. Some discolouration to spine, with bumping to the tail and shelf wear to the head. Contemporary owner's inscription and more recent inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, colour plates exceptionally bright. Very Good