By Frank T. Bullen

Published: London The Religious Tract Society

Size: 8" by 5.5" Pagination: [2], 430pp.

A lovely prize binding of this fascinating work on sea creatures, with a frontispiece and 39 plates.

By Frank T. Bullen

1905 Creatures Of the Sea Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Birds, Beasts and Fishes

Name: 1905 Creatures Of the Sea
SKU: 987G6
Price: 138 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: London The Religious Tract Society

Size: 8" by 5.5" Pagination: [2], 430pp.

A lovely prize binding of this fascinating work on sea creatures, with a frontispiece and 39 plates.

£138.00

weight: 1kgs / stock code: 987G6

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Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Very Scarce

The second impression of the work, first published the year prior.

In full red calf, with marbled fore edge and endpapers.

A lovely prize binding for Gresham's School, a boarding school in Norfolk with notable alumni such as poet W.H. Auden, composer St Benjamin Britten and Oscar winning actress Olivia Coleman.

A lovely work detailing an abundance of sea creatures, such as the humpback whale, the sea elephant, turtles, seals, dolphins, albatross, penguins and many more.

Accompanied by a beautiful blue frontispiece and 39 blue plates by Theo. Carreras. Collated, complete.

Condition

In full calf. Externally, excellent. Fading to head of boards. Book plate to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

Overall: Near Fine

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