1900's~ICE-BOUND~ANTICOSTI CRUSOES~Edward Roper~RARE~Adventure~Canada~Decorative

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In a very decorative cover, an interesting 'Adventure' story, and a rare and very collectible title, by the well known Victorian artist and world-wide traveller Edward Roper F.R.G.S., who although born in England, emigrated at a young age with his family to Canada, and in later life lived and painted variously in Canada, Australia and the Pacific Islands, and back in England. The Publisher's blurb states: "The adventures, perils, and experiences of some shipwrecked persons on this ice-bound island are graphically described, the book affording capital reading and much information on the natural and physical conditions of life in this northern region". - This is the story of two young lads, George and Sid,who are passengers aboard a barque traveling from England to Quebec in advance of their families, which becomes ice-bound in the St. Lawrence river, they decide to slip away by boat at night to escape the privations imposed by a drunken Captain and Mate, and end up shipwrecked on Anticosti island. They arrived in May, and as the weather was mostly good, they expected rescue to be imminent, but after a while they meet up with Walter, who has already been marooned there for a year. Together, they settle into some shelter and make life more comfortable, and one day a ship is sighted, relief is here? Unfortunately, the ship is driven onto the rocks, and they find a young girl, Gabrielle, and her dog Nero the only survivors. Then as the sea around them froze and all hope of rescue evaporated, they realised that they would have to spend the long Northern winter in their 'splendid isolation'. Apologies for the light reflections on the cover in the photo's. Please see my other items for more interesting and collectable volumes, as I will always try and combine the delivery to save you money. A rare title. On Sale with a very low starting price the others on sale elsewhere range from £117 to £291, this is an undated early 1900's edition of * � Ice-Bound , or The Anticosti Crusoes � * by Edward Roper F.R.G.S. (1833-1909), with a frontispiece plus five other b&w full-page illustrations by the author, published by S. W. Partridge & Co.. Ltd., London, [first published 1902] this one undated with no other editions or impressions noted, but it's early 1900's, probably 1902-1910 hence circa 1905. Size approximately 7-1/2 inches x 5 inches, with 330 pages including the plates, plus a 24-page publishers list. The light-blue cloth-covered hardcover with an illustration to the front of George & Gabrielle returning from hunting, and the barque 'Duke of Cornwall' icebound depicted on the spine, with gilt detailing and title, is very slightly darkened on the spine, lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges with slight wear on the corners and around the spine-ends , very sound and not otherwise split along the spine, has a small amount of loss to the printed design, and light soiling, and otherwise reasonably clean and tidy � (see photo's). Inside is complete apart from lacking the front free-endpaper, all six illustrations present & correct , the front endpaper is showing the webbing and hinges which are not split, the rear � endpaper is sound and not split , no writing or graffiti , hinges sound and boards well attached, binding tight and all pages firmly attached ,� the booklist and endpapers and first and last page are variably tanned otherwise not tanned, approximately eight top corners had been turned so not widespread, there is a lower margin split to three of the illustrations not reaching the picture (see photo's), and a margin split to four of the text pages two at the top and two at the bottom with none reaching the text (some shown in photo's), light scattered foxing, there is some usage soiling and I have shown the worst in the photo's these being the tea-stain at the bottom of page 104/105 decreasing on the adjacent pages and the butterfly shape shadow which I assume is from pressing a leaf or flower, else there is some scattered pale usage soiling most of which looks like foxing specks (biscuit crumbs likely as... read more

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