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This picture is in blue, black and white. The tide is in white, and “Richard Henry Dana” is in black at the bottom of the cover. The spine has the title in a gold mat, but the style of lettering and spacing are different from the first edition; and the book is a much cheaper edition. The author’s name on the spine is in black and reads “Dana.” Also on the spine there is a picture of a boy dancing in a panel. This is from an illustration in the book. The title page is in red and black lettering and has “Eight Coloured Illustrations,” but Rackham’s name is not given. At the bottom of the page is “Collins’/Clear-Type Press,/London and Glasgow.” The eight full-page illustrations in colour are badly printed and no page numbers are given on them. There are 304 numbered pages, 4¾×7⅛. Several other editions were bound in various coloured cloths, with an illustration from the book pasted on the cover. These editions also have eight full-page illustrations in colour, and the title page in red and black. All the English editions were published by Collins.
American Edition: Bound in either tan or light blue cloth with an illustration from the book pasted on the cover, with decorations around the picture in red and black, lettering on the cover and spine in black and zed, and black pictorial stamping on the back. The author’s name does not appear on the outside of the book. There are 304 numbered pages, 4¾×7¼. The title page is the same as the first English edition, all in black lettering and has “Printed in Great Britain” on the reverse title page. There are eight full-page illustrations in colour that are as clear as the first English edition; the pages were probably printed at the same time and sent to America to be bound. This is undoubtedly the first American edition. Published by The John C. Winston Co.
1905
