Accession number
PML 146340
Creator
Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814.
Published
[London] : Golden Cockerel Press, 1946.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Printed from the original manuscript, in the Victoria Public Library, which has title: Narrative of an expedition to Furneaux Islands on the coast of New South Wales.
"Bass's journal of the whaleboat voyage"--P. 29-43.
Wood engraved illustrations printed in green ink.
"Matthew Flinders' Narrative has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, on Arnold's mould-made paper in 16 pt. Aldine Bembo type, with Centaur initials, designed by Bruce Rogers, and Lyons capitals, designed by Louis Perrin, upon the model of Latin inscriptions, in 1846. Composition and presswork, under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press, has been finished on the 30th day of October, 1946. Compositors: W.J. Sharp & H.W.K. Halls. Pressman: E. Wilkins. The Edition is limited to 750 copies. Nos: 1-100 are bound in full green morocco."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 69, bound in green morocco.
"Bass's journal of the whaleboat voyage"--P. 29-43.
Wood engraved illustrations printed in green ink.
"Matthew Flinders' Narrative has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, on Arnold's mould-made paper in 16 pt. Aldine Bembo type, with Centaur initials, designed by Bruce Rogers, and Lyons capitals, designed by Louis Perrin, upon the model of Latin inscriptions, in 1846. Composition and presswork, under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press, has been finished on the 30th day of October, 1946. Compositors: W.J. Sharp & H.W.K. Halls. Pressman: E. Wilkins. The Edition is limited to 750 copies. Nos: 1-100 are bound in full green morocco."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 69, bound in green morocco.
Description
100 p. : ill., map ; 32 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in green cloth slipcase.
Classification
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