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    By John Henderson
    London   Adam and Charles Black
    9.5" by 7.5" ix, 271 [5] pp.
    A lovely first edition of John Henderson's a vivid colonial-era study of the West Indies and neighboring islands, illustrated with colour plates by A. S. Forrest.
    By John Henderson

    1905 The West Indies

    London   Adam and Charles Black
    9.5" by 7.5" ix, 271 [5] pp.
    A lovely first edition of John Henderson's a vivid colonial-era study of the West Indies and neighboring islands, illustrated with colour plates by A. S. Forrest.
    £125.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 978H7
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    Description

    Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. 

    This volume is a first edition. 

    Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventy-three further coloured plates, each with captioned tissue guard. Sadly, the colour plates facing pages 98, 264 and 268 are fully disbound, but present. Collated, complete.

    This volume is an extensive study of the beauty and history of the West Indies, with particular attention to Jamaica, but also Barbados, St Lucia, Dominica, St Thomas, and Martinique, from a colonial British perspective, shaping both how the scenery and the people are portrayed.

    Archibald Stevenson Forrest (1869-1963) was a British painter, draftsman and illustrator.

    Four pages of publisher's advertisements to rear.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart. Fading to spine. The odd handling mark to boards and spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Offsetting and the odd spot to endpapers. Slight fading to extremities, more so to rear board. Internally, generally firmly bound. Colour plates facing pages 98, 264 and 268 are fully disbound, but present. Hinges strained in places, but holding. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to the fore edge and one or two spots to the first and last few leaves.

    Very Good

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