A voyage in a sunbeam / [Mrs. Brassey].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brassey, Annie, 1839-1887, author.

Contributor:

Waterlow and Sons, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brassey, Annie, 1839-1887--Travel.

Brassey, Annie.

Brassey, Thomas Brassey, Earl, 1836-1918--Travel.

Brassey, Thomas Brassey.

Ocean travel.

Voyages around the world.

Sunbeam (Yacht).

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Brassey, Annie, 1839-1887 (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

489, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : map ; 32 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

Voyage in a sunbeam : the original journal

Place of Publication:

London : Waterlow & Sons Limited, printers, London Wall, [1877]

Notes:

Statement of responsibility from cover.

Edition statement from Schimmel. "This is the deluxe first printing ... printed for family and friends."--Schimmel.

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on page 489; imprint date from Schimmel.

Binding: full contemporary morocco; boards triple-ruled in gold; title stamped in gold on left board; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy annotated for subsequent publication by Longmans, Green and Co. by the author, who "used this copy to note chapter divisions, edit deletions, and show where her illustrations should be inserted"--Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has armorial bookplate of the author on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has printed label with manuscript shelf-mark ("Compt. BB Shelf. 5") on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 81

OCLC:

1301393815