Monday, December 8, 2014

CA. 1885 SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON BY JOHANN DAVID WYSS - EDITED BY WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON - ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1885

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
BY JOHANN DAVID WYSS

EDITED BY WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON

95 WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS

*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ MANY ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS ~ CLASSIC TALE ~ SHIPWRECK ~ EAST INDIES ~ ADVENTURE ~ SURVIVAL ~ HUNTING ***

London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, no date, circa 1885.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• publisher's beautiful original decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• illustrated with 95 wood engravings, both full-page and part-page

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