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British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-27. Paperback. Good.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Log of the Water-Lily ... during two cruises in the summers of 1851-2, on the Rhine, Neckar, Maine, Moselle, Danube, and other streams of Germany ... Second edition, revised and enlarged..

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British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-27. Paperback. Good.

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British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition of Robert Blachford Mansfield's The Log of the Water Lily, 'Revised and Enlarged'. It's an account of 'the first English rowing-boat that was taken on an excursion to the Continent', bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rubbed with some wear at the top of the spine. Minor staining to endpapers. Entertaining steel engravings accompanying the text. Very Good 1854

London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854 .. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged." Well bound in half leather. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 0.25". pp.124. Dark green calf covered spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with black leather title label (chipped) and gilt number to base:'5366'. Large armorial bookplate to the verso of the front board: "Royal Artillery Regimental Library". Clean text throughout well illustrated with 14 woodcuts. Very Victorian! - "...Great was the astonishment of the worthy Mannheimers, at seeing five Englishmen clad in grey flannel trousers, white ditto shirts, and white felt hats with capacious brims, preparing to insert themselves into an elongated walnut-shell..." ** "MANSFIELD, ROBERT BLACHFORD (1824�1908), author and oarsman, born at Rowner, Hampshire, on 1 Feb. 1824, was second son of John Mansfield, rector of Rowner, and younger brother of Charles Blachford Mansfield. His mother was Winifred, eldest daughter of Robert… Read More