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The Etchingham letters / by Sir Frederick Pollock and Mrs. Fuller Maitland.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1909 Pollock
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollock, Frederick, 1845-1937, author.
- Maitland, Ella Fuller, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- England.
- Genre:
- Epistolary fiction.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1909.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1909, c1898.
- Summary:
- A novel of polite society told in a series of conversational letters chiefly between Sir Richard Etchingham, a widower in Wessex (lately retired from Indian service), and his beloved sister Miss Elizabeth Etchingham of London.
- Notes:
- First English edition has authors in reverse order on title-page.
- Design of unsigned binding attributed to Thomas Watson Ball by book artist Richard Minsky.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Publisher's moss green cloth binding stamped on cover and spine with sea green and cream Art Nouveau decoration.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of John Blatteau.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, R. Book cover art of Thomas Watson Ball, page 53
- 830 019th-century legal treatises, no. 18871-18874
- OCLC:
- 4425656
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