Gosse, P.H. — The Ocean

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge London xii, 360, 4-ads, frontis, engravings to text. . HB. 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.. 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..