JOHN FRYER OF THE BOUNTY.
Notes on his career written by his daughter, Mary Ann. With an introduction and commentary by Owen Rutter and wood-engravings by Averil MacKenzie-Grieve. Pp. 54, frontispiece, title page decoration (repeated at colophon) and 10 illustrations (2 full page); tall impl. 8vo; dark blue canvas, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly scuffed, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised, the edges lightly and spine heavily faded; t.e.g., others uncut; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1939. Edition limited to 300 copies on Arnold's hand-made paper, signed by the editor and the artist. Pertelote l46. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label above the earlier bookplate of W. S. Adams on the upper pastedown. The last of the Golden Cockerel Bountiana series. 'The notes by Mary Ann Fryer came into the editor's possession in response to a letter he had written five years previously, and enabled him to complete the biographical details of Bligh's antagonist, John Fryer' [Pertelote p. 44]. Item #162912
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