The romance of animal arts & crafts : being an interesting account of the spinning, weaving, sewing, manufacture of paper and pottery, aëronautics, raft-building, road-making, and various other industries of wild life / by H. Coupin, ... and John Lea, … ; with twenty-seven illustrations.
Coupin, Henri
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258620
Summary
Bibliographic description
355, [1] p., [26] 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 and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): birds; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped mice, gilt lettering and red and white stamped frogs on spine.
Makers and roles
Coupin, Henri, author John Lea, author