The cruise of the "Cachalot" : round the world after sperm whales / by Frank T. Bullen ... with illustrations.
Frank Thomas Bullen (1857-1915)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3045059
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 379, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 8vo. Pencil checkmark on front free endpaper verso, written over a pencil price (erased): "8/6". Pencil code on rear free endpaper: "d//do/." Pencil number on rear free endpaper: "44/288". Pencil note on rear free endpaper: "First edition". Ephemera: loosely inserted clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out). Binding: Late nineteenth-century full publisher's blue cloth; single blind fillet to form an outer border on boards; gilt stamped centrepiece: sperm whale; gilt lettered spine; dark grey endpapers.
Makers and roles
Frank Thomas Bullen (1857-1915), author Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), author