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The Atlantic telegraph / by W.H. Russell L.L.D. ; illustrated by Robert Dudley. Dedicated by special permission to His Royal Highness, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.

Accession number
PML 146545
Creator
Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907.
Published
London : Day & Son, [1865?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated chromolithographic t.p., chart, and 24 tinted lithographs after R. Dudley.
Publisher's advertisements (4 p.) at end of text.
Contemporary advertisements and reviews suggest that the book was issued in December of 1865 in time for the holiday trade.
"Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Printers, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Library's copy is the large paper issue, with the tinted plates additionally colored by hand.
Description
v, 117, [4] p., [25] leaves of plates : col. ill. (lithograph), chart ; 43 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's burgundy cloth decorated in green and gold, with small paper onlay medallion on front board.
Classification
Department