Philippine Life in Town & Country.

Description

x + 311, [8] pp., hardbound, decorative red boards with white lettering and dark green linear decoration, tipped-in black & white photograph to front boards, gilt shields to front cover and spine, with plastic protection cover, with a large rear fold-out colour Philippine map.

The American author, James A. Le Roy, was a private secretary to the Philippine Commission. However, because of poor health he only spent two years in the Philippines and later worked as consul of Durango in Mexico.