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Kingsley, Henry (Re-Narrated By), TALES
OF OLD TRAVEL (London: Macmillan & Co., 1869). First
edition, 18.5 x 12.5cm (large 16mo), in publisher's lime green
sand-grain cloth w/gilt design (by Arthur Hughes?) to fr. cover &
spine (blind ruling only to rear), gilt title to spine, t.e.g.,
chocolate ep.s w/binder's ticket (Burn) to rear pastedown, [i-viii],
[1] 2-368, [1] 2-55 [56] (publ. cat. dated Aug. 1869) + tissue-guarded
frontis & 7 unpaginated wood engraved plates by James Cooper.
Printed by R. Clay Sons & Taylor, London. Inscribed by the
publisher to half-title: "To Arthur Hughes from A. Macmillan."
Binding Good (extremities moderately bumped & worn, & hinges
cracked); contents Very Good (a few leaves clumsily opened).
Macmillan 189, Sadleir 1364, Wolff 3828. (Inv. #808) C$1,000 When considering that Hughes had only recently produced the Tom Brown's School Days drawings for Macmillan, & the similarities of this book's gilt decorations to others by Hughes, it appears likely that he designed the binding for this book. Home Page |