Description: W H G KINGSTON : 9 TITLES FROM THE NELSON LIBRARY For sale we have 9 books by W H Kingston and in uniform decorative bindings which are all published by Nelson. See images for titles All 9 books in good condition. All cloth bindings are in good condition. Pages good throughout with perhaps the odd bit of light spotting to the odd page. All colour plates present to all volumes. Overall a good lot of adventure sea stories. Handsome on the shelf too. William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 – 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. His first book was The Circassian Chief, a story published in 1844. While still living in Oporto, he wrote The Prime Minister, a historical novel based loosely on the life of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, and Lusitanian Sketches, descriptions of travels in Portugal. Settling in England, he interested himself in the emigration movement, edited The Colonist and The Colonial Magazine and East India Review in 1844, was honorary secretary of a colonisation society, wrote Some Suggestions for a System of General Emigration in 1848, lectured on colonisation in 1849, published a manual for colonists entitled How to Emigrate in 1850, and visited the western highlands on behalf of the emigration commissioners. He was afterwards a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen. But from 1850, his chief occupation was writing books for boys, or editing boys' annuals and weekly periodicals. He started the Union Jack, a paper for boys, only a few months before his death. (Loc: Pictorial shelf; stair )
Price: 250 GBP
Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh (City of)
End Time: 2025-02-08T16:22:27.000Z
Shipping Cost: 53.11 GBP
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Binding: Hardback
Non-Fiction Subject: Travel Guides & Travel Stories
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Fiction Subject: General & Literary Fiction
Author: W H G Kingston
Publisher: Nelson
