first edition
1946 · London
by Flinders, Matthew
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. First Thus. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being 547). Folio (12 1/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 310 x 189 mm.).
Publisher’s full green buckram. Front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a schooner designed by John Buckland Wright, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small red ink stamp on front free endpaper. Collating 100, [2], [2, blank]. Nine wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright (including frontispiece, title vignette, six head-piece vignettes, and printer’s device). Map. Printed in black and green. A Near Fine copy.
“Matthew Flinders’ Narrative has been (truncated)
Publisher’s full green buckram. Front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a schooner designed by John Buckland Wright, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Small red ink stamp on front free endpaper. Collating 100, [2], [2, blank]. Nine wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright (including frontispiece, title vignette, six head-piece vignettes, and printer’s device). Map. Printed in black and green. A Near Fine copy.
“Matthew Flinders’ Narrative has been (truncated)