364 pages, engraved illustrations.
Describes the flora, fauna, and adventures three brothers encounter while searching for a white buffalo on the American prairie.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, 1850s
Dimensions
Height
6-3/4 in
Width
4-1/2 in
Book Details
Author
Mayne Reid
Illustrator
William Harvey
Publisher
Ticknor & Fields
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1852
Date Printed
1866
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding
Binding 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.
