The Ocean
- Collection : Ken Smith
- Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis, engravings to text
Description:
One of the most successful of Gosse's popular books. Undated reissue (first published 1845).
Closest to Freeman & Wertheimer 21, but with some differences to binding.
Condition
8vo, orig. red cloth, with pictorial sea-bottom scene to lower two-thirds of front board, carried round to spine; SPCK in brown device to rear board; gilt title to front board (with decorative initial letters) and spine; patterned endpapers. Cloth rubbed, with minor wear, nick to head of spine; corners and fore-edge of front board bumped. Inner hinges cracked but firm. Good.
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