The village shield
Subtitle: a story of Mexico
By: by Ruth Gaines and Georgia Willis Read.
Contributors: Read, Georgia Willis.; Bullock, W. fl. 1808-1828, ill.; Von Tempsky, G. F., ill.; Rugendas, Johann Moritz, 1802-1858, ill.; E.P. Dutton (Firm)
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Company
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Mexico -- Fiction
Notes: "The full-page illustrations for this book have been taken from three famous books of travel ... Six months residence and travels in Mexico by W. Bullock, London, 1824 ; Mitla, travels in Mexico and Guatemala, by G.F. von Tempsky, London, 1858 ; and Mexico, landscapes and popular sketches, by C. Sartorius, London, 1859. The two former authors made their own sketches; the latter ... those of ... Moritz Rugendas"--Pref.
Colored frontispiece and colored plates facing p. 28 and 44. Black and white plates facing p. 21, 108, 136, 180, 188, 194, 201, 241 and 252. Vignettes throughout.
Advertisement on p. [ii] of preliminary p.
Includes: Notes, on p. 257-264.