The Swiss family Robinson . an account of the adventures of a Swiss pastor and his family on an uninhabited island translated from the best original editions by Henry Frith. With about two hundred illustrations.
Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818)
Category
Books
Date
1878
Materials
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3131353
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,556,[10]p, [1] leaf of plates . ill.. . 19cm.. Folded sheet loosely inserted at p.148, with specimen of silk thread annotated 'Silk from silkworms, W. Straw Worksop 1911". Provenance: Inscription: "Presented to William Straw [junior (1898-1990)] for good all round work. St.IV. H.C. Stanley July 12th 1909". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full blue cloth; as issued.
Makers and roles
Johann David Wyss (1743 - 1818) Henry Frith (b.1840) Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782 - 1830)