Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; Fiction, Fact, & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle: Compiled by Merle Johnson

8vo. [12], xi-xvii, [3], 3-208, [4] pp.Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, black lettering and a color pictorial inlay by Howard Pyle to the front board. Color Frontispiece (Pyle's painting "An Attack on a Galleon"), eight additional color plates, four black and white plates, one small tipped in black and white illustration (page 3), and numerous in-text and small decorative illustrations throughout all by Howard Pyle. Lacking the dust jacket. ADNB, Elizabeth Hawks, "Pyle, Howard". Over his 35-year career, Pyle carved a reputation for himself as one of America's most significant illustrators. He produced more than 3,000 illustrations for magazines, twenty books, and several articles. Pyle began as a children's book illustrator, and established new standards in American book-making with his designs, with William Morris among one of his numerous fans. Pyle was notably famous for his illustrations about pirates and historical adventure stories. He illustrated books by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells. This book is a compilation of some of Pyle's work related to pirates and vividly demonstrates his style and his influential conception of pirate costume. An attractive example of this wonderfully illustrated book. A Near Fine book with light wear to the bottom edges of the boards and mild rubbing to the lettering on the spine.…