Description
Pre-owned. Illustrated by vignette title page and throughout by pen and ink sketches with captions on opposite pages, both surrounded by red borders. Decorated by publisher’s device on verso of title and by red initials. Oblong 4to. 12 x 8.25 inches. 202 + [1] pp. Bound in original green cloth with pictorial gilt blocks on front board and coloured P and O flag. All edges gilt. Extremities worn with loss at foot of spine and front hinges starting to crack; otherwise a very good and fascinating copy. This copy signed by a certain ‘Brett’ or ‘Barrett’ aboard the RMS India, a P & O Vessel which was eventually torpedoed on Sunday, 8th August 1915 off the coast of Norway. Donated and valued by an accredited Antiquarian Book Dealer. Published by The Studio of Design and Illustration Supply Agency 1898
