Mandeville, Sir John; Kinglake, Alexander William. Voyages and Travels, bound with Eothen, or Travels brought Home from the East. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Edition de Grand Luxe. [12256]
Three-quarter morocco with vibrant marbled paper boards, matching marbled end papers, top page edges gilt, 6 gilt-decorated spine panels, raised spine bands, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some rubbing to the edges, particularly at the base of the spine. Two books bound as one volume. The first with a color lithograph frontispiece, letter press tissue guard, xxi, 202 clean pp., many plates with letter press tissue guards. The second book has xviii, 228 clean pp., with a photogravure portrait of Kinglake, letter press tissue guard, illustrated with plates. Good. Hardcover.
The World's Great Books series.
Voyages and Travels, by Sir John Mandeville. Edited by Arthur Layard, with a critical and biographical introduction by Jaques W. Redway.
Eothen or Traces of Travel brought Home from the East, by Alexander William Kinglake, with a critical and biographical introduction by Jaques W. Redway.
