Wildcat Tower
Subtitle: or, The adventures of four boys in pursuit of sport and natural history in the North Countrie
By: by G. Christopher Davies ... ; with numerous illustrations.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903; Butterworth and Heath,; Dalziel Brothers; W.H. Smith & Son; Camden Press
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Boys -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Wildcat tower :
Notes: Preface dated 1877.

Publisher's device printed on t.p. and printer's device on t.p. verso.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Preliminary wood-engraved plate included in pagination.  Plate is signed "Dalziel".

"The chapter on Photography is written by my brother, E. H. Davies, and the Cruise in a Collier is by F. C. T. Naylor."--Preface.

Illustrations are signed as engraved by "Dalziel", "E. Evans", "Measom", "J. W. Whimper" and "Butterworth & Heath".

With wood-engraved decorative tail-pieces.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-2] and p. 17-32 at end include wood-engraved illustration.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with illustration replicated from the text.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine with imprint: "F. Warne & Co.".  With brown painted endpapers.  With embossed stamp: "W. H. Smith & Son".  With ownership inscription dated 1878: "Lily Scargill".  One illustration with amateur hand-colouring.