WESTWARD HO! or; the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amy as Leigh, Knight, of burrough, in the County of Devon, In the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928

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Year of publication

1928

Place of printing

New York

Author

[Wyeth, Illus.] Kingsley

Publishers

Charles Scribner's Sons

Description

An early printing of the edition for Scribner's Illustrated Classics. 9 colour plates, colour illustrated title page, endpapers and cover pastedown all by N.C. Wyeth. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, with the colour pictorial paste down on the upper cover. 413, (1)ad. An attractive copy, internally fresh and clean, a touch of mottling to the fore-edge, the binding solid and firm, the black cloth well preserved, the lettering on the spine is faded out but the cloth is still nice and black, the cover illustration just a touch rubbed.

Edizione: with the n.c. wyeth illustrations. adventure in the time of queen elizabeth. amyas leigh sets sail with francis drake and other privateers to the caribbean, where they battle with the spanish.<br> wyeth was the pupil of artist howard pyle and became one of america's greatest illustrators. the work he did for the scribner's classics are among the most famous book illustrations in the world.