A Voyage in the Sunbeam: Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

Hardcover. Brown cloth ruled in black; front & back cover vignettes and title printing in gilt & black; spine lettering and vignette, gilt; all edges gilt. xv + 511 pp. Illustrated with countless wood engravings in text; engraved plates, and 8 coloured maps, 2 folding; folding chart at rear. Ink name on front free endpaper and on back of first map (1896); small stain to spine (not affecting spine title or vignette); a couple of very small bruises to rear cover (not affecting vignette); front hinge almost detached; binding cracked but firm; foxing to prelims and rear matter, including first map and rear chart; interior otherwise clean & bright with particularly sparkling cover vignettes.