Adventures on the high mountains : romantic incidents & perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world / by Richard Stead, … ; with sixteen illustrations.
Stead, Richard, B.A
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258649
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 13-327, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X / 10/7". 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): two men and a bear; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt and red stamped men riding on an elephant and gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Stead, Richard, B.A, author