HEROIC DEEDS OF GREAT MEN

Item
5/24
Valentine, heart shaped, gold background, forget me not floral border, artist Brundage, cupids

THE GOLDEN TREASURY LIBRARY

Set Comment

Undated, but approx 1920's-1930's. Red, green or blue cloth covers with pictorial pastedown illustration to front board, and gilt titles to spine. Some titles also come with cheaper linen type cloth cover with no picture. Catalogue to rear pages. Colour plate to frontispiece, plus five full page illustrations in text with several black and white drawings throughout. come with and without THE GOLDEN TREASURY LIBRARY on spine, originally issued with an ARTISTIC WRAPPER IN FULL COLOUR originally eight titles but expanded to twenty one, more titles listed but all seem legitimate, some come with Tuck advertising to back pages

Set Covers

Title

HEROIC DEEDS OF GREAT MEN

Item Comment

illustrations LORD ALLENBY ENTERING JERUSALEM (cover), SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AT THE TOURNAMENT IN WHITEHALL, NELSON BOARDING THE SAN NICOLAS, SIR HENRY HAVELOCK AT THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW, GENERAL GORDON IN THE DESERT, LORD KITCHENER DISGUISED AS AN ARAB, THE "VINDICTIVE" AT ZEEBRUGGE 254 pages

Type

Hardcover Book

Artist

HOWARD DAVIE AND HARRY PAYNE

Author

C. SHERIDAN JONES AND ALFRED MILES

Size

5 x 7.5 in.