WESTWARD HO!; or The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight / in the reign of her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth / Rendered into Modern English by Charles Kingsley / with Illustrations from 16th Century Originals and from photographs of "Westward Ho!" country together with a biographical sketch of the author. . . .
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Harry G. Theaker. Reprint of 1941 Edition. Half leather over cloth. 8vo (~10" x 8"), red half leather over red cloth, illustrated with B&W frontispiece reproduction photo of Kingsley and 15 B&W plates, top edge of pages gilt (t.e.g.), red ribbon page-marker, 634 pages. Very Good / None. Item #5585
Nice half leather illustrated late edition of Charles Kingsley's famouis Elizabethan-based adventure story.
Rev. Charles Kingsley (1819-75) was a Broad-church Evangelical, historian & professor-turned-novelist best known for the Water Babies, "Alton Locke," and "Westward Ho!"
Some wear to leather's edges and uniform age-toning.
Price: $25.00
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