The romance of modern exploration : with descriptions of curious customs, thrilling adventures and interesting discoveries of explorers in all parts of the world / by Archibald Williams, … ; with twenty-six illustrations.
Williams, Archibald
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257465
Summary
Bibliographic description
383, [1], 16 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "150 / net / XX= / 8[?]/9". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): camel with tent; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped hot air balloon, gilt lettering and red and white stamped polar bear on spine.
Makers and roles
Williams, Archibald, author