Name/Title
The Ocean Waifs / Captain Mayne ReidEntry/Object ID
2017.11.31Description
v, 366 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.
(4 engraved plates, including frontis.?)
A tale of adventure and shipwreck, for the juvenile reader.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Adventure stories., JaponismeBook Details
Author
Mayne ReidPublisher
James MillerPlace Published
City
New YorkState/Province
New YorkCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1880Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Eastlake DesignBinding Notes
Bound in green cloth with decidedly Asian influence to the black stamped design, featuring a diagonal stamping of climbing vine and flowers, a fan shaped design to bottom left cover, asymmetrical design, green endpapers printed in a small fan pattern. Eastlake elements to title typeface and exaggerated lettering. Blindstamping to rear. Notable for how the Asian influenced design of book covers increasingly had little or nothing to do with the book's subject.
Note binding comparison to the 1866 Mayne series published by Ticknor and Fields.Notes
Originally published in 1865Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Ticknor & FieldsNotes
Binding comparison to the 1866 Mayne series published by Ticknor & Fields