1912 King Solomon's Mines

Description

Colour Plates, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

With a colour frontispiece, one folding colour plate, and three colour plates. Title page states "with eight illustrations in colour" while the contents page only lists five items, all of which are present. Following an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa, led by Allan Quartermain, as they search for the missing brother of one of the party. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Illustrated by Arthur Cadwgan Michael, a Welsh painter and illustrator. Dated from the British Library.