The Solitary Horseman Or The Life And Adventures Of G. P. R. James.
£40.00
Publisher
[Philip Sainsbury at] The Cayme Press, Kensington.
Place
[London]
Date
1927
Synopsis
This edition has been strictly limited to eight hundred copies.
Item Description
8vo. 9 x 6 inches. 303 + [1] pp. colophon. Decorated by device on title page. Bound in original orange cloth, gilt, with gilt block of device on front board. Fore and lower edges rough cut. A little wear to extremities and sunning of spine, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and by 16 pages of black and white plates, including facsimile. Biography of George Payne Rainsford James (1801?-60), historian and prolific historical novelist, who also served as British Consul in Norfolk, later at Richmond, Virginia, 1852 and Consul General at Venice from 1860. The book includes a chronological list of his works, 1828-64 with 91 items. By Stewart Marsh Ellis (1878-1933), literary biographer (Stewart Marsh Ellis: The Last Victorian, Lincoln College Archive Catalogue (Oxford) website). Published at The Cayme Press, Kensington, founded by Philip Sainsbury (1899-1936?) in 1923 (WordPress. com, Cayme Press. website).
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