Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
Title:
The Godolphin Arabian, or, The history of a thorough-bred / by Eugène Sue.
Alternate Title(s):
Godolphin Arabian
Published / Created:
London : Chapman and Elcoate, 1845.
Physical Description:
116 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 2160
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 2004 698: Original wrappers. Armorial bookplate of John M. Schiff on accompanying case.

Advertising matter on [5] pages at end, not noted in pagination.

BAC: British Art Center copy: Brownish-white wrappers; printed in black on front and back outsides and insides. Black quarter morocco, and blue cloth slip-case; black leather label with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece, title-page, 1 plate of an etching, 2 wood-engravings in text, 1 wood-engraving on title-page. Spine height: 9 7/8 inches. Note: Only one copy located.

Translated from the French.

"Originally translated for the Sunday Times".

"Printed by Chapman and Elcoate, Peterborough Court, and 5 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street"--T.p. verso.

Illustrated by Thomas Onwhyn.

Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 175
Subject Terms:
Horses -- Fiction. | Race horses -- Fiction. | Thoroughbred horse -- Fiction. | Schiff, John M. -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Advertisements.
Contributors:
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886.