[Works] Author's Limited Edition.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, successors to Estes & Lauriat, [c.1898] Stock Code: 48358
Popular naval adventures and books for children
Author's Limited Edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, of which this is number 165. The volumes have individual undated titles, and introductions by W. L. Courtney variously dated 1896 to 1898.Description
24 volumes, octavo (219 x 145 mm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, gilt titles in two, others with gilt naval motifs, blue cloth sides, blue decorative endpapers, top edges gilt.
Illustrations
Frontispieces, title-pages and 122 plates on japon, tissue guards; titles in red and black.
Condition
Very light sunning to spines, a few corners just rubbed, still a fine set.
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