Eric Ravilious Aaron Smith (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Copy 10/500 red and black boards very tight but some pages are uncut at the top.

Board with Cloth Spine. Condition: Good. Eric Ravilious (illustrator). Limited / Numbered. Number 189 of 500 copies Internally very good subject to tanning to the endpapers , binding firm , cover sound with a littlr fading and rubbing to the boards. Pics available Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition #93/500 black cloth over red boards titles and top edge gilt. Engravings by Eric Ravilious. Tight binding no marks now in clear mylar jacket. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. first thus. 5 x 8 in. Black and red cloth boards. Engravings by Eric Ravilious. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, a touch toned at edges, with minor edge wear. Binding tight. Spine titles bright. Text very clean with no markings or names. Naut. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. Red boards with black spine, gilt lettering on spine. Clean text with tight spine. Foxing to front fly page and rear page, fortunately text is clean. 156pp. Limited edition, 154/500 copies. The text is in the original formatting of the 1824 text. Some chipping to the top and bottom of the spine.

Hardcover. Limited edition, no. 3 of 500. Octavo; VG Hardcover; Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper-covered boards; Light rubbing to head and tail of spine; Bookplate of Robert Mackenzie Waggaman to front pastedown; Text block lightly age-toned; Illustrated with numerous engravings by Eric Ravilious; v, 156 pages. 1349922. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #471). 8vo. v, 156pp. Buckram-backed boards, lettered in gold at the spine with red paper-covered sides. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious, which comprise a frontispiece, two header piece decorations and seven illustrations in the text. The tip of one corner knocked, and with a touch of light chafing to several other extremities. Some browning to the free endpapers, and a tiny pinprick or two of spotting to very occasional fore edge margins. A very good copy of this account of Smith's capture by Cuban pirates and his eventual escape, plus an account of his subsequent Old Bailey trial for piracy (for which he was acquitted); originally printed in 1824 and here splendidly enhanced by these Ravilious engravings (his second Golden Cockerel Press contributions).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The atrocities of the pirates : being a faithful narrative of the umparalleled sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba ; with an account of the excesses and barbarities of those inhuman freebooters, together with a copious and explicit report of his subsequent trial at the Old Bailey. 8vo.,156pp., decorated throughout with engravings by Eric Ravilious. The text is that of the original edition of 1824. Quarter black buckram, spine gilt, scarlet paper-covered boards, t.e.g. Limited Edition #491 of 500 copies.Slight wear to the extremities of the spine. Usual tanning to the endpapers. A very good plus copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire in 1929. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Full black morocco rebinding with five raised bands and gilt titling to the spine. Top edge gilt with others uncut as issued. Striking marbled end-papers. Free from inscriptions. Light spotting to the end-papers and mild toning to the text-block, otherwise internally very clean. 'The atrocities of the pirates : being a faithful narrative of the umparalleled sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the pirates of the island of Cuba ; with an account of the excesses and barbarities of those inhuman freebooters, together with a copious and explicit report of his subsequent trial at the Old Bailey. The text is that of the original edition of 1824'. This is number 399 of 500 copies issued. 10 striking B/W woodcuts (frontispiece and 9 in-text illustrations) by Eric Ravilious. A handsome rebound copy and an increasingly scarce title. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

8vo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. [8] + 156 pp.+ [1] pp. colophon.(Selborne, British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-40, p.361). Bound in original quarter dark brown cloth, gilt, over red boards. Deckled edges. Flyleaves browned and occasional foxing of page edges, preliminaries and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by wood engraved frontispiece and by text figures. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes. Aaron Smith had been a mariner in the West Indies when he his ship was plundered by pirates in 1822. Smith was taken and forced to assist them. He escaped to Havana and arrested as a pirate and later turned over to the British commander-in chief at Jamaica and returned to England in chains. He was tried for his life at the Old Bailey, but found not guilty and acquitted. It is considered that this published account may have been embellished and romanticised with an added love interest. Limited edition reprint, illustrated by the artist, Eric Ravilious (1903-42), (Selborne, British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-40, p.281) Published by The Golden Cockerel private press (1920-61) during the period it was owned by Robert Gibbings, (1889-1968) Irish born author and wood engraver. (Selborne, p.140-42). MARITIME PIRATES MARITIME CRIME 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MARITIME.