Descrizione

An early edition in the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series. With 9 colour plates, illustrated titlepage and endpapers by N.C. Wyeth and a map as from the first printing of the work. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with a colour pictorial paste-down by N.C. Wyeth on the upper cover. 273, [1ad] pp. A very nice copy indeed, beautifully preserved and much fresher than is usually encountered. The black cloth rich and unfaded, front pastedown in excellent order, internally fine and clean, the gilt very bright.

Edizione: with superb illustrations, stevenson's great adventure at sea is brought vividly to life through the evocative paintings of n.c. wyeth. a must-read book for boys of every generation, wyeth’s is the best and most recognized of all the many editions. early issues of the book are difficult to find in nice condition.<br> a prize student of howard pyle’s school, wyeth had absorbed the school’s philosophy that the artist must fuse with his subject to successfully illustrate it. this is a beautiful production of a great childhood classic.