Where Flies the Flag with Coloured Illustrations by Arthur Rackham

Harbour, Henry

Verlag: Collins' Clear-Type Press, London, Glasgow and New York, 1904

Beschreibung

No date; circa 1904. Rare material; out-of-print. Dark blue coated-cloth pictorial boards, gilt embossed cover titles and design, moderate shelf wear, rub; protected in clear sleeve. Front cover depicts bold gold titles with colored design of soldier on horseback. Thick heavy stock leaves generally fair w/varying discoloration throughout. Antiquarian name pencilled at front endpaper: "Fred G. Bosc, 86 Sidney Rd., Woodford Halse." Smooth dark maroon endpapers. String-bind good, few areas starting. Fairly solid example of this classic Rackham enhanced volume. Features Arthur Rackham's artistry with six color plates; one being a tipped-in color facsimile of original. One of the earliest books to feature Rackham's work and notably, not present in many of his bibliographies. Chapter contents: "George Payne arrives at Montreal; Going A-Sugaring; At Teulon; Farming and Hunting; In which we are introduced to New People; Jokers and Sleepers; A Narrow Shave; A Start for the Klondike; Over the Chilcoot Pass; Getting the Gold; A regular Broncho Buster; With the Mounted Rifles; On to Pretoria; A Slim Trick; Old Friends, Good News, and a Camp Fire; In which the Story returns to Harold; A Man Overboard; Hunting and Hunted; The Stowaway; Harold and the Stowaway are Missing; A Battle for Life; Discovered by Good Samaritans; Mysterious Words; 'Forty Winks' and what they brought; The Bushranger's Prisoner; The Mutiny of the Mermaid; and, The Ends of the Threads." This title is part of a series Collins Clear Type Press published, which included biographies of the Lives of Men and Women who have achieved fame by the services they have rendered to their country or to mankind . Other series titles include The Icy North by Henry Harbour with biographies of Arctic explorers Sir John Franklin and Fridtjof Nansen, Peerless Women and Old Sea Dogs . Printed by William Collins, Sons, and Co., Ltd., London and Glasgow. 286 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021268

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Where Flies the Flag with Coloured ...

Verlag: Collins' Clear-Type Press, London, Glasgow and New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1904

Einband: Hard Cover

Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur

Zustand: Fair

Auflage: First Edition.