TENBY: A SEA-SIDE HOLIDAY
Written by Philip Henry Gosse
Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse
Published by John Van Voorst
in 1856
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- NATURAL HISTORY
- MARINE LIFE
- SEASIDE
- ANTIQUARIAN
- WALES
- PEMBROKESHIRE
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TENBY: A SEA-SIDE HOLIDAY
Written by Philip Henry Gosse.
Illustrated by Philip Henry Gosse.
Stock no. 1208946
1st.
1856.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
A detailed record of a summer holiday spent at Tenby. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 24 b/w plates with colour. xviii and 400 pages including index. Rebound in blue cloth boards which are heavily affected by damp. New endpapers. Froint inner hinge is split but otherwise the binding is nice and snug. 1" tear to top gutter edge of frontispiece. Damp patch to top margins of plates. All plates are present. Some foxing and grubby marks to contents but generally a decent copy internally.
Front cover
Contents
- I. LONDON TO TENBY
- II. ST. CATHERINE'S
- III. HE CAVERNS
- IV. THE GREAT RHIZOSTOME
- V. MONKSTONE
- VI. NORTH COVE
- VII. THE HEAN CASTLE
- VIII. THE STAG'S HORN
- IX. HOYLE'S MOUTH
- X. DREDGING
- XI. TENBY HEAD
- XII. LAMPHEY AND PEMBROKE
- XIII. CIRRIPED LARVAE
- XIV. LIDSTEP
- XV. ST. MARGARET'S
- XVI. CAREW CASTLE
- XVII. SOUTH COVE
- XVIII. THE CLAVELINA
- XIX. SURFACE ANIMALS
- XX. THE SUCKING-FISH
- XXI. TRAWLING
- XXII. BOG-BOTANY
- XXIII. MANORBEER
- XXIV. THE LIFE-BOAT
- XXV. PEDICELLARIAE
- XXVI. TO AMRUTH CASTLE
- XXVIII. THE SEA-SPIDER
- XXVIII. GILTAR
- XXIX. LUMINOUS ANIMALS
- XXX. YOUNG SEA-URCHINS
- XXXI. VIEW FROM THE CROFT
- XXXII. KNIGHTSTON POND
- XXXIII. ROTIFERA
- XXXIV. SPONGES
- XXXV. THE BOWERBANKIA
- XXXVI. ST GOWAN'S
- XXXVII. SEA-ANEMONES
- APPENDIX
- General Index