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Denizens of the Deep / Frank T. Bullen

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

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