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The light of Scarthey : a romance / by Egerton Castle.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1899 Castle
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1899.
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1899.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 434 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fredrick A. Stokes Co., 1899.
- Contents:
- Part I
- The peel of Scarthey
- The light-keeper
- Day Dreams: A philosopher's fate
- Day Dreams: A fair emissary
- The awakening
- The wheel of time
- Forebodings of gladness
- The path of wasted years
- A genealogical epistle. Part II
- The threshold of womanhood
- A masterful old maid
- A record and a presentment
- The distant light
- The tower of Liverpool: master and man
- Under the light
- The recluse and the squire. Part III
- Gold smuggler and the philosopher
- "Love gilds the scene and woman guides the plot"
- A junior's opinion
- The quick and the dead
- The dawn of an eventful day
- The day: morning
- The day: Noon
- The night
- The fight for the open
- The three colours
- Under the light again: The lady and the cargo
- The end of the thread
- THe light goes out
- Husband and wife
- In lancaster castle
- The one he loved and the one who loved him
- Launched on the great wave
- The gibbet on the sands
- The light rekindled.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in red cloth, stamped in black and gilt on front and spine, ill. of a lighthouse on front. No decoration on back. Top edge gilt, front signed "TBH" for Theodore B. Hapgood(?).
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum's copy stamped on t.p.: "Received Jan 1 1900 The Athenaeum."
- Cited in:
- Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 2, pg. 16
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