Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author
Boston: Litte, Brown, and Company, 1908. H.C. COLBY. Cloth. H.C. COLBY, illustrator. Colonial Press, Boston. Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. 8vo; [xiii], ix-xv, [i] [2], 341pp; gilt stamped pictorial on blue cloth over board, gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; owner’s bookplate on front pastedown; tri-chromatic half-tone photographic illustration frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional color plates; b&w vignette on title page; 32 b&w photographic illustrated plates; small line drawings in text; small mark to spine, small damp stain to fore-edge ffep; near fine. Near fine. Item #1778
A tour around England illustrated with wonderful black and white photographic illustrations reproduced by half-tone show scenes in and around the country.
A bookplate reading “Ex Libris Henry Hornblower” designed and signed by Edmund H. Garrett 1911 is affixed to the front pastedown. The plate pictures a pastoral scene with a river, and a decorative border features shells, pinecones, and books. Henry Hornblower (1863-1941) was an investment banker and lifelong resident of Massachusetts. Edmund Garret was an American book-plate designer, illustrator, painter, and author.
Price: $150.00