1884 By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War

Description

Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A very scarce first edition. Referenced against Peter Newbolt's 'Bibliographical Study of his British Editions' (16.1). 

In the publisher's decorative cloth binding. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates by Gordon Browne. With thirty-two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Collated, complete.

Set during the conflicts between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire, this novel follows a young boy named Frank Hargate, whose fishing excursion goes awry and leads him to a harrowing experience at sea.

Written by G. A. Henty, who is best known for a prolific output of historical and adventure novels which earned him his reputation as the most popular Boy's author of his day, inspiring other other writers to attempt writing juvenile adventure stories in his style, including Herbert Strang, Percy F. Westerman and Henry Everett McNeil.