Blue cloth lettered in gilt
It was first published in French as Les forceurs de blocus in 1865
1 (misnumbered Vol II
regardless of the results of experiments and mathematics" (pp [2-3])
which unfavorably compared France’s mode of taxation with Britain’s
The Blockade Runners. Medicine Blue cloth lettered in giltLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. 7 1 2" x 5 1 4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials "B. G." to front board, new endpapers. Cloth binding clean and sharp; ownership blind stamp and ink date to front