Captains Courageous : A Story of the Grand Banks Sentein illustrated titlepage

illustrated titlepage

16 plates of photographs

Number 89 of 250 copies signed by Eric Gill and Denis Tegetmeier

A collection of poetry about animals including the "The Toad and the Snail" and "The Tummy Monster"

published one month after the first

Captains Courageous : A Story of the Grand Banks Sentein illustrated titlepageLondon : Macmillan, November 1897. Second edition, published one month after the first. Crown 8vo (190 mm); viii, 245, (2) pp; Frontispiece with tissue guard (now blotchy and browned) and 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber; publisher's original royal blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration, tips of corners bumped; all edges gilt; clean black endpapers; previous owner's gilt inscription to the half title page, dated Xmas 1897. A Fine copy.