Title: The Broadway Highway A Romance in Kent

Author: Jeffrey Farnol

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Publisher: Sampson Low & Co. Ltd.

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Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: N/A

Type: Book

Language: English

Seller SKU: 0107257

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Description

Sampson Low & Co. Ltd.; c. 1912.  Hardcover. This is the "New Illustrated Edition" of The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol and  is a release of an Edwardian bestseller, with illustrations by the British painter Charles Edmund Brock (C.E. Brock).  This is a large volume (large octavo, approx 23 x 17 cm). It has deep blue boards with an ornate gilt foliage design to front and spine. Small colour portrait vignette of main character "Charmian" to front. The book contains 24 full-page colour plates (a frontispiece, a colour-illustrated title page, and 22 additional plates). Every plate is printed on glossy art paper and protected by a transparent, captioned tissue guard. Corners are bumped and rubbed and spine faintly sunned. Top and bottom of spine a little crushed. End papers slightly tanned. Inscription to FFEP dated 1917. Very light foxing throughout. Binding tight and text clean. Top of text block gilded. Preowned. No ISBN.