Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering shadowed in black and engraving cover vignette; bevelled boards. n.d. [1887]. 130 pp. + ads. Illustrated with engraved plates and frontispiece portrait. First signature slightly shaken, and some minor scoring to first five or six pages, about 3 or 4 words in each case; a beautiful little copy with sparkling cloth and otherwise clean & bright interior. ASSOCIATION COPY. Laid in is a newslatter from the Bainbridge Memorial Methodist Church, Rotorua, New Zealand, inscribed by the incumbent minister to G. (or C.?) P. Bainbridge of Canada, whom we presume to be related to Edwin Bainbridge. The inscription is dated May 31, 1949. Also included, and dated the same day, is a small photo of the monument to Edwin Bainbridge taken by the G. P. Bainbridge of the inscription. The 20-year old Edwin Bainbridge was killed in the Tarawera volcanic eruption of 10 June 1886.
Book ID: 24174
Edwin Bainbridge: A Memoir
London: Morgan& Scott, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good.
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Book ID | 24174 |
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Publisher | Morgan& Scott |
Publisher Place | London |
Publisher Year | 1887 |
Size | 8vo |
Language | English |