c1922 Six Historical Adventure Novels by G. A. Henty

Description

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

In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.

These copies are undated, dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the National Library of Scotland, University of Liverpool Library and Newcastle University Libraries.

A charming six-volume collection of adventure and historical fiction by G. A. Henty (1832–1902), the celebrated English novelist and war correspondent renowned for his gripping historical fiction for young readers.

This collection consists of: 

Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.

With Wolfe in Canada: Or, The Winning of a Continent. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates, and two map illustrations, one a Sketch map of Lake Champlain and Lake George and one of the Plan of Quebec. Collated, complete.

A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.

The Lion of St. Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete.

Under Wellington’s Command: A Tale of the Peninsula War. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates. Collated, complete. The frontispiece facing 316, is in fact facing page 320.

St. Bartholomew’s Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and four monochrome plates, and a colour Map of France in 1570, across two pages. Collated, complete.