California : the land of the sun / painted by Sutton Palmer ; described by Mary Austin.
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)
Category
Books
Date
1914
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250581
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 178 p., 32, [1] leaves of plates (1 folded) : col. ill., map ; 25 cm. With two pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Pencil price on front free endpaper: "16/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. SAPPHIRE.’ on front free endpaper. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; multicoloured blocked pictorial design on upper board: orange trees with pines and mountains behind within frame of dark green fillets; dark green lettering on upper board; multicoloured blocked pictorial design on spine of orange trees within frame of dark green fillets; title in gilt panel on spine.
Makers and roles
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934), author Harry Sutton Palmer (Plymouth 1854 - 1933), illustrator