Shelfmark
Ib6.3.51
Author
Title
The Thames / by Mortimer Menpes ; text by G.E. Mitton.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : A. & C. Black, Soho Square, London, W.C., [1906].
Physical description
xii, 248 p., 55 leaves of plates : col. ill., fold. map ; 23 cm.
Note
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet, with letterpress to all but one.
Note
With a final laef of publisher's advertisements.
Formatted contents note
No display constant generated: The beauty of the river.--The Oxford meadows.--The old town of Abingdon.--Dorchester and Sinodun Hill.--Castle and stronghold.--Twin villages.--A mitred abbot.--Sonning and its roses.--Wargrave and neighbourhood.--Henley.--The romance of Bisham and Hurley.--Boulter's Lock and Maidenhead.--Windsor and Eton.--Magna Charta.--Penton Hook.--Weybridge and Chertsey.--The Londoner's zone.--The river at London.--Our national possession.--Index.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lewis Vernon Harcourt.
Provenance
Eton College Library ink stamp on title page verso.
Binding
Early 20th century teal calf half-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; marbled endpapers; gilt top edge; publisher's colour stamped cloth front cover pasted on rear flyleaf.
Subject
Thames River (England) Pictorial works.
Subject
Thames River (England) Description and travel.
Subject
Thames Valley (England) Pictorial works.
Subject
Thames Valley (England) Description and travel.
Added entry--name
Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) (Geraldine Edith)
Added entry--name
Harcourt, Lewis Vernon (), 1863 - 1922 former owner.
Added entry--name
Adam and Charles Black publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37364