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The island of Doctor Moreau / by H.G. Wells.

Accession number
PML 147406
Creator
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Published
London : William Heinemann, 1896.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Advance copy of the first ed. in trial binding.
Frontispiece plate initialed "C.R.A." (i.e. Charles Robert Ashbee).
Publisher's list (32 p.), dated November 1895, at end of text.
"Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press"--Colophon.
Description
x, 219, 32 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's trial binding; a variant of the final binding design in tan pictorial cloth printed in black and red, with additional design printed in red and black on the spine and the spine title lettered in gold.
Classification
Department