A YEAR AT THE SHORE
Written by Philip Henry Gosse
Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse
Published by Alexander Strahan
in 1865
- Categorised in:
- NATURAL HISTORY
- MARINE LIFE
- SEASIDE
- ANTIQUARIAN
- VICTORIAN
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A YEAR AT THE SHORE
Written by Philip Henry Gosse.
Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse.
Stock no. 1208918
1865.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Green cloth boards, gilt titles and borders. 36 b/w plates printed in colour by Leighton Brothers. xii and 330 pages including index plus 2 pages publisher adverts to rear. Third printing. Re-backed with original spine laid down. Front pastedown has a couple of small chips, endpapers have a few minor marks. A few margin marks and foxspots. All plates present, colours vivid and bright. One plate has a margin crease. A nice copy considering its age.
Front cover
Contents
- I. JANUARY
- Advance of Waves upon a Beach
- II. FEBRUARY
- View from Babbicombe Cliffs
- III. MARCH
- Invention of the Aquarium
- IV. APRIL
- Barren Sand
- V. MAY
- Lesser Weaver
- VI. JUNE
- Maidencombe
- VII. JULY
- Dredging Ground
- VIII. AUGUST
- Rock pools
- IX. SEPTEMBER
- Ball's Dredge
- X. OCTOBER
- Life in Tropical Seas
- XI. NOVEMBER
- Clarence's Dream of the Sea Bottom
- XII. DECEMBER
- Squirters