THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE
signed
1971 · Barre MA
by TOMLINSON, H. M.
Barre MA: Imprint Society, 1971. No. 903 of 1950 copies. Palmer, Garrick. 8vo, pp. xiv, 221. Illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer, and with a map of the Amazon Basin showing parts-of-call, and San Antonio, the highest point on the Rio Madeira reached by S.S. "Capella"... Signed on colophon by Palmer. Green cloth, stamped in gilt, with black leather spine. Spine slightly scuffed at ends, a small hole in pp. 165-166, o/w a nice copy in box covered with pictorial paper. Colophon reads: "The Sea and the Jungle has been printed for Imprint Society members in an edition limited to 1950 copies. Designed and produced in London by Ruari McLean, the book was composed in 'Monotype' Bembo and printed from type by W. & J. Mackay in Chatham, England. The paper is Basingwerk Parchment, manufactured by Grosvenor Chater & Co Ltd. The binding in quarter black morocco and buckram was executed by Mackay Binders. The illustrations, printed from the block, were engraved on wood by Garrick Palmer of Cowplain, Hampshire, who here signs Garrick Palmer this copy number 903 (Inventory #: 55064)