With the Allies to Pekin : a tale of the relief of the legations / by G.A. Henty … ; illustrated by Wal Paget.
George Alfred Henty (1832-1902)
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257005
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 353, [17] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm. Pencil price (partially erased), code and date[?] on front pastedown: "50¢ / net / P.C / 8/6". Provenance: Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Broughton family crest with motto 'Si je puis' [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: Early twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; cream and black stamped illustration on upper board: wreath with portrait shields between two swords; black lettering on upper board; cream and black stamped illustration on spine: wreath and sword; gilt and black lettering on spine; sea green textblock edges.
Makers and roles
George Alfred Henty (1832-1902), author Walter Stanley Paget (1863 - Bromsgrove 1935) , illustrator