Description

An early edition in the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series. With 9 colour plates, colour illustrated title-page and illustrated endpapers by N.C. Wyeth and with the map as from the first printing of the work. Large 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 pp. A handsome copy, with a bit of minor age evidence to the edges. Internally clean and well-preserved, the binding tight and strong.

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.