The romance of the animal world : interesting descriptions of the strange & curious in natural history / by Edmund Selous ... ; with sixteen illustrations by Lancelot Speed & S.T. Dadd.
Selous, Edmund
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257488
Summary
Bibliographic description
329, [7], 16 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X / 1/8". 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 stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): jaguar on a branch with peccaries underneath; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped bird of prey, gilt lettering and red and white stamped bird with fish on spine.
Makers and roles
Selous, Edmund, author Lancelot Speed (London 1860 - Southend on Sea 1931), illustrator Dadd, Stephen T, illustrator