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THE PERADVENTURE OF/PRIVATE PAGETT/BY/MAJOR W. P. DRURY/ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY/(RETIRED)/WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS/BY/ARTHUR RACKHAM/A.R.W.S./LONDON/CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD./1904.
Bound in orange-red cloth with pictorial stamping in black on the cover and spine and black lettering. 242 numbered pages, 4¾×7⅜. There are eight full-page illustrations in half-tone by Arthur Rackham.
TWO YEARS BEFORE/THE MAST/BY/RICHARD HENRY DANA/ILLUSTRATED BY/ARTHUR RACKHAM/LONDON AND GLASGOW/COLLINS’ CLEAR-TYPE PRESS. [1904].
There are several bindings of this book. The most sought-after by collectors and the one that in every way seems to be the first edition is the one bound in either red or green cloth with pictorial stamping of a ship, the “Scud,” on the cover in dark blue, black and white. The ship has two men standing in the bow waiting for a canoe with two Indians in it. The lettering on the cover is in dark blue with white shadows. The spine has a picture of an Indian in blue and white, and the title is in a mat of gold. The author’s name in fall is below in dark blue lettering. Later editions have only “R. H. Dana.” The first edition has the title page in black lettering and has “Illustrated by Arthur Rackham,” and no mention of the number of illustrations; but there are eight full-page plates in colour. The illustrations in this edition have the number of the page that they illustrate in the lower right-hand corner, and these illustrations are much clearer and the colours better than in any of the other editions. This same binding appeared later with only six illustrations. The first edition has 304 numbered pages, 4¾×7¼. According to the publishers’ catalog, this edition was published in September, 1904.
There is another edition in light blue cloth, with pictorial stamping on the cover taken from an illustration in the book.
