Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder / John Kendrick Bangs

Name/Title

Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder / John Kendrick Bangs

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.213

Description

Bound for Beauty #28 180 p., [15] leaves of plates, incl. frontis : col. ill.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Adventure stories, Juvenile fiction, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

5-1/4 in

Book Details

Author

John Kendrick Bangs

Illustrator

Peter Newell

Publisher

Noyes, Platt & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1901

Printer

Riggs Printing & Publishing Company

Place Printed

City

Albany

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Designer

Peter Newell

Binding Notes

Pictorial brown cloth designed by Peter Newell and signed with "P.N." in the lower right corner. Titles in black with a uniquely Newell illustration of the Baron talking into the mouthpiece of a hand-cranked telephone stamped in color.

Notes

2nd printing.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Von Munchausen

Related Publications

Publication

Bibliography of American Literature

Notes

BAL 753

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection