Accession number
PML 144926-28
Creator
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.
Published
London : Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1843.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
A re-issue of the 1st ed., with the original half t.p.'s reading "Narrative of travels and adventures, &c." and the new t.p. pasted onto the stubs of the old ones. Cf. Sadleir.
Also issued under titles: Narrative of the travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, & western Texas; Monsieur Violet.
Incorporates information and incidents, often verbatim, from newspaper articles written by G.W. Kendall and by Josiah Gregg and later included in the "Narrative of the Texan Santa Fʹe expedition" and "Commerce of the prairies." Cf. Raines' Bibliog. of Texas and the prefaces to the two titles mentioned.
Vol. 1: viii, 312 p., [1] leaf of plates (fold. map); v. 2: 318 p.; v. 3: 299 p.
"J.L. Cox & Sons, Printers to the Honourable East-India Company, 74 & 75 Gt. Queen St. Lincoln's-Inn Fields."--Colophon, v. 1.
Also issued under titles: Narrative of the travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, & western Texas; Monsieur Violet.
Incorporates information and incidents, often verbatim, from newspaper articles written by G.W. Kendall and by Josiah Gregg and later included in the "Narrative of the Texan Santa Fʹe expedition" and "Commerce of the prairies." Cf. Raines' Bibliog. of Texas and the prefaces to the two titles mentioned.
Vol. 1: viii, 312 p., [1] leaf of plates (fold. map); v. 2: 318 p.; v. 3: 299 p.
"J.L. Cox & Sons, Printers to the Honourable East-India Company, 74 & 75 Gt. Queen St. Lincoln's-Inn Fields."--Colophon, v. 1.
Description
3 v. : fold. map., 21 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Folding frontispiece map annotated in ink by former owner.
Provenance
Signature of A. Souter on t.p.; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's red cloth blocked in blind; by Westleys & Clark, with their ticket.
Classification
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