Name/Title
Ran Away to Sea: An Autobiography for Boys / Captain Mayne ReidEntry/Object ID
2015.7.22Description
359 pages, [6] leaves of plates, illustrations.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Voyages and travels, Fiction, 1850sDimensions
Height
6-3/4 inWidth
4-1/2 inBook Details
Author
Mayne ReidEdition
Author'sPublisher
Ticknor & FieldsPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1859Date Printed
1866Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's BindingBinding Notes
Bound in bright blue cloth with elaborate pictorial gilt stamped spine. Front and rear boards blind stamped in a Reid series uniform binding. Tissue guarded engraved frontis. Yellow endpapers. Series binding was published in the 1850's. This same binding issued in the 1860's.
