Tenby: a Sea-Side Holiday. APPARENTLY UNRECORDED VARIANT OF THE UNILLUSTRATED ISSUE IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Van Voorst, 1856

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Year of publication

1856

Author

Gosse Phillip Henry

Publishers

Van Voorst

Keyword

cstock, shelfgr, natural history, wales, tenby, gosse, phillip henry gosse, natural history, marine biology, tenby, sea-side, holiday

Languages

English

Description

8vo., First Edition, Unillustrated Issue, neat contemporary signature (dated 1856) on front paste-down; original green herringbone cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt, uncut, primrose endpapers, expertly rebacked, old backstrip laid down, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue (dated March 1856) bound in at end. This work is based on on a family holday on the Welsh side of the Bristol Channel in 1854. ' There is only the one edition, but there is a very late form of it in which the twenty-four plates are absent altogether' (F&W). THE PRESENT COPY IS AN APPARENTLY UNRECORDED VARIANT OF THIS ISSUE. It resembles F&W 68 but has the list of plates present and the sides and backstrip plain. The advertisements include a prospectus for 'British Sea Anemones' and ads for 'Marine Zoology', 'Devonshire Coast' , 'Aquarium' and others of the author's works. See Freeman & Wertheimer 68; Freeman BNHB 1385.