The Swiss family Robinson. : A translation from the original German / edited by W.H.G. Kingston. With six coloured and seventy-four other illustrations by H. Kley.
Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818)
Category
Books
Date
1899
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085376
Summary
Bibliographic description
291, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 8vo. Pencil markings on front pastedown: "E 50 XX= 197 9/4". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Huttleston / 1904." [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & Stationers / Union Square, / New York.'. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full publisher's green cloth; double black fillets to form an outer border on upper board with green, brown, grey, blue and gilt blocked illustration of a boy on a galloping horse; black lettering and gilt lettered title panel on upper board; gilt lettered title panel on spine with green blocked illustration of palm leaves; red textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818), author Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782 - 1830), author William Henry Giles Kingston (1814 - 1880), editor Kley, Heinrich, illustrator