A Book of Discoveries. Illustrated by Gordon Browne by John Masefield - 2012-01-10

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., [1910]. 8vo. xii, 353, [1] pp., plus 8 pp. illustrated publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated title in red & black, woodcut-engraved frontisp., text illustrations & plates, and historiated initials throughout. Pictorial beige publisher’s cloth, elaborately decorated & illustrated Arts & Crafts cover art of pirates on front, w/ nautical motif decorative borders, and spine, illustrated endpapers (slight darkening to spine), w/ original illustrated open-backed slipcase (w/o spine), still F/G- copy, w/ colour-illustrated 4-pp. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. publisher’s catalogue featuring Pycraft & Noble’s Animal Why Book on front. First edition of this curious anthology of nautical stories surrounding the boating adventures of Mac & Robin in their imagination, grappling with pirates, and even ghosts, in Water Orton near the River Tame in Warwickshire. Gordon Browne (1858-1932) followed in his father Hablot Knight Browne’s footsteps (Phiz), and began… Read More