One of 100 Specially Bound Copies
Flinders, Matthew & Buckland-Wright, John (illus.) ~ Matthew Flinders’ Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798 Preceded and Followed by Notes on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of the Sydney Cove, &c, by Geoffrey Rawson : One Of A Hundred Copies Specially Bound By The Publishers
The Golden Cockerel Press, London : 1946
The Sole UK Printing of this illustrated edition published by the Golden Cockerel Press, London in 1946. Number ’ 35' of 100 specially bound copies, from an overall limitation of 750 copies. Folio (310 x 190 mm.). Printed in dark green throughout (thought images attached make it look like B/W!), wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 6 chapter headings and device, all by John Buckland-Wright, and one full-page map of the east coast of Australia. Full green morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Top edge gilt, others uncut, spine very slightly lightened and internally clean. A near Fine copy. Housed in the publisher’s original cloth slip-case, which is very lightly marked and spotted. A handsome first edition of this recounting of Matthew Flinders' famous voyage, that led to the discovery of the Illawarra coal seams and the Bass Strait. The first time the original manuscript had been published. Only one hundred copies were bound thus in full morocco with gilt decorations and titling, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (Cockalorum 170). A Very handsome production and now increasingly scarce.
BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
£1350