Denizens of the Deep / Frank T. Bullen
Book
430 pages. Illustrated with 24 plates by Charles Livingston Bull and Theodore Carreras.
An account of sea creatures based on Bullen's personal observations, "buttressed by scientific fact and decorated by imagination."
2015.7.221
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Marine animalsAnecdotes1900s
8-1/2 in
Frank Thomas Bullen
Charles Livingston BullTheodore Carreras
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1904
Publisher's Binding
Bound in dark grey cloth with black, white, and olive green stamped and embossed cover illustration of a breaching whale diving through frothy white waves. Gilt stamped cover title. Spine is stamped with 3 black humpback whales and gilt titles. Cover design after plate "the ocean boiled with our efforts" on p. 36. Drawing isn't signed, but on early printing of the Sperm Whale story, all illustrations are credited to Charles Livingston Bull.
Flyleaf inscription: Henry Bush Jr. 1916