Mr. Midshipman Easy Illustrated By Fred Pegram, With An Introduction By David Hannay. Marryat, Captain: Literature

Hardback, approx 7 x 5 inches. Binding design for ?The King?s Own? by Albert Angus Turbayne. In navy blue cloth covers with beautiful pictorial gilt decorations and lettering to front and spine. Peacock designs to endpapers. All page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor bumps to bottom corners else cover lovely and clean and bright. Endpapers a little tanned, with faint inscription at front, neat inscription to second blank page. Some foxing to tissue guard at front & title page. A few faint foxing spots Inside else pages all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a lovely clean and tight copy. 427pp. With B&W illustrations by F. H. Townsend, full page and within text. Publishers of the later half of the 19th century competed for markets using elaborate bindings to attract their audiences, and this book announces A. A. Turbayne?s association with Macmillan, with the company motif in the crow?s nest and the artist?s monogram between the heads of the fantastical fish-like sea-monsters.