Accession number
PML 89023
Published
London : Frederick Warne and Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, [between 1865 and 1872]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
The earlier date of publication, 1865, is based on Warne's address at Bedford Street (P. Brown, London publishers and printers, p. 214) The later date, 1872, is based on the name form, Schribner, Welford, and Armstrong, used until 1872 (J. Tebbel, History of book publishing in the US, v. 1, p. 317-318.
120 full-page choromolithograph illustrations; frontispiece is a Nelson print, all illustrations are unsigned.
Text and plates printed on one side, only.
Half title.
"Francis Thomas Deakin, Sept. 10th 1879"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
120 full-page choromolithograph illustrations; frontispiece is a Nelson print, all illustrations are unsigned.
Text and plates printed on one side, only.
Half title.
"Francis Thomas Deakin, Sept. 10th 1879"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[124] leaves, [121] leaves of plates : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 16 x 12 cm
Provenance
Francis Thomas Deakin, inscription; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial blue diagonal rib-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind, edges gilt.
Classification
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