Adventures among wild beasts : romantic incidents & perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world / by H.W.G. Hyrst … ; with twenty-four illustrations.
Hyrst, H. W. G.
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
Phildelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258639
Summary
Bibliographic description
345, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1 50 / net / XX= / 8/9". Provenance: Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; white and red fillets to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): a rhinoceros hunt; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt and red stamped scene on spine: man shooting an arrow at a jaguar poised to spring at another man in a hammock; gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Hyrst, H. W. G., author