The Abyssinian Expedition and the life and reign of King Theodore with one hundred illustrations engraved from the original sketches by the special artists and correspondents of the Illustrated London News.
Roger Acton (1826 - 1906)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3088801
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],77,[1] p., plates : ill., ports. ; 46cm. Priced in pencil: 21/-. Loose insert: 1 sheet of card: St. Bernard's Abbey, near Loughborough, engraving (30x42cm). Drawn on stone by Louis Haghe, from a sketch by Clarkson Stanfield. Lower corners cut. Provenance: inscribed "Vauncey Harpur Crewe from his affectionate father. Feby. 2/69." [i.e. Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th baronet (1824-1886)]. Binding: publisher's red cloth, gold lettered and gold stamped pictorial.
Makers and roles
Roger Acton (1826 - 1906)