Adventures on the great rivers : romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world / by Richard Stead, … ; with sixteen illustrations.
Stead, Richard, B.A
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258648
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 17-339, [13], 16 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X / 1/8". Ephemera: loosely inserted: publisher's advertisement bookmark. 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): men and hippopotamuses on river with medallions in the corners (two of birds, one of a monkey and one of an) and a fish below; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt and red stamped men in a canoe and gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Stead, Richard, B.A, author