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The Web of the Golden Spider

Frederick Orin Bartlett

Frederick Orin Bartlett (1876-1945) was an American writer. This is the British edition of a book first published in Boston in 1909 by Small, Maynard and Company with a frontispiece by Harrison Fisher and three drawings in line by Charles M. Relyea. The British edition had a dust jacket with an illustration by Blampied that was also used as the frontispiece and the same illustrations by Charles Relyea.




First edition

Bibliography code: PAL-12.1

Publisher: Frank Palmer

Series: none

Year: May 1912

Format: 8vo

Pages: viii, pp 352

Binding: Red cloth with title in black to top of cover, golden figure in middle, author in black at bottom; title, author's surname, golden figure and publisher in balck, on spine

Size: 187 x 135 mm

Dust jacket signed: Same illustration as frontispiece, signed in white, lower right

Internal illustrations: Frontispiece only; other illustrations by Charles M. Relyea

Price: 6 shillings

Printing history: First published May 1912

Printed by: Mercat Press, Edinburgh

Image of dust jacket

Frontispiece and title page (click to enlarge)


Notes: This is a very rare book. I have only seen one copy for sale, which I bought, but without the dust jacket.