1900 The Out-Door World | W. Furneaux | Fine Leather Prize Binding | Illustrated Natural History

1900 The Out-Door World | W. Furneaux | Fine Leather Prize Binding | Illustrated Natural HistoryA handsome and increasingly scarce fine leather prize binding of The Out Door World by W. Furneaux, published by Longmans, Green and Co., London, in 1900. Bound in rich maroon full leather with gilt ruled borders, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, decorative dentelle turn ins, marbled endpapers, and marbled page edges. The front board bears the gilt crest of Christs Hospital, one of Englands most historic educational institutions, and the volume