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NOBLE, Rev. Louis L. (1813-1882). After Iceberg with a Painter: A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around Newfoundland. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1862. 8vo. Illustrated with 6 tinted lithographs after paintings by Frederick E. Church. xiv, 336 pp. With publisher's ads. Bound in publisher's full blue pebbled cloth, boards decoratively ruled and stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in blind, light yellow endleaves (spine toned and edgeworn some soiling, rubbing to boards, some dampstaining to ffep., text toned, a few gutters overopened, tissue guards on plates a bit torn, skewed). Very good. FIRST EDITION; A COMPLETE COPY OF THIS SCARCE ITEM. With the ownership bookplate of conservationist Dr. Frederick Ellis of Shaw Island on the fp. In 1859, Lewis Noble set out for Labrador and the Newfoundland coast in company with American landscape artist, Frederick Edwin Church, for the purpose of studying and sketching icebergs. This is the first-person account of that voyage to Battle Harbour and of the return journey by way of the west coast of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and the Bay of Fundy, with incidental remarks on sealing, missionary activities and native people. "Church's paintings of the Arctic icebergs, begun on his first trip to the north in 1859, represented in a marine subject Church's awe of these romantic hinterlands. The more important paintings resulting from the trip are now lost. The six lithographs, tinted pale green, create the effect of an eerie northern wasteland, but possessing just the dramatic power that the artist sought. To Church, the icebergs were symbols of the north. In such subjects he found both an expression of a continental geology and a sense of cosmic meaning." — John Wilmerding, History of American Marine Painting, p. 83; O'Dea 661n. Morgan p. 296; Sabin 55380; Arctic Bibliography 12352.