Author: BALL, SIR ROBERT STAWELL.
Title: STAR-LAND. Being Talks With Young People About The Wonders Of The Heavens.
Description: London. Cassell & Co., 1896., Reprint, twenty fifth thousand, first published 1889. Full leather binding . A school prize from Swansea Training College, but no bookplate, no name, nothing about the recipient if there ever was one. 376 pages including index. Frontispiece is an engraving showing the author giving a Christmas Lecture at the Royal Institution. Illustrated with 92 b./w. figures. Book leans slightly, edges are worn, and most of the black leather title label is missing. 19cm. x 12.5cm. 1896

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