Adventures in the great deserts : romantic incidents & perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world / by H.W.G. Hyrst … ; with sixteen illustrations.
Hyrst, H. W. G.
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
Phildelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258641
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 340, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X / 1/8". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Huttleston Broughton. / 1908." [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 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): man on a camel with medallions in the corners (three of birds and one of a man) and a coiled snake below; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt and red stamped men with weapons and gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Hyrst, H. W. G., author