Author: Theophile Gautier (note: the title page : Author of " Italy," "Constantinople," "The Orient," Etc. and by other distinguished French Travelers and Writers of Note. Translated from the French, with an additional chapter upon the Struggle for Supremacy in the Far East by Florence McIntyre Tyson. Illustrated by Numerous Photogravures in Two Volumes"
Title: Russia
Publication Information: The International Press The John C. Winston Co. Philadelphia. Copyright 1905
Call #: DK 27 .79 1905
Book Size: 20.5 cm (H); 14 cm (L); 3.4 cm (spine)
Cover: Blue cloth; gilt edging; gilt design with crown (with a cross on top); eagles (with crowns with crosses); emblems/shields (central one includes a horse and rider); eagle talons holding globe and scepter; plain back cover (not even gilt edges); spine - has gilt title, Gautier, mini-eagle emblem, and publisher name at the bottom of the spine, and lines across the bottom and top of the spine - al gilt.
Inside Book Covers: plain pages
Paper Edges: top paper edge is gilt and even; other paper edges not gilt but even
Illustrations: List of illustrations included (and note: portraits of the Czar and Czarina)
Comments:
- Table of Contents for Volume II
- Index in the back
- Early 20th-Century American Text Production
- Travel Literature
- Orientalism and the Exotic
- Illustration
