threatening to disown them if they disobey
when Bancroft was serving as Secretary of the Navy and Espy was the meteorologist reporting to that department
White wrappers printed in b/w photographic image and orange lettering
72 x 36 inches (image size 59 x 30 inches)
front joint creased
The Blockade Runners. Counterculture threatening to disown them ifLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. 7 1 2" x 5 1 4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials "B. G." to front board, new endpapers. Cloth binding clean and sharp; ownership blind stamp and ink date to front