GULLIVER
Rex Whistler's illustrated maps for Gulliver's Travels , Cresset Press
London 1934. And illustrations and decorations to Swift's Gulliver's Travels,
Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, undated,10 x 18cms .
TOP RIGHT
Edward Gordon Craig's ex libris plate for his mother Ellen Terry
TOP RIGHT
Leslie Wood's illustration Taddlecombe and District
ROBINSON CRUSOE A Map of Robinson Crusoe's Island, from
the first edition of Volume III. Dated 1719; See BIBLIOGRAPHICA, Part
VI, "Robinson Crusoe and Its Illustrators".
GREYFRIARS
from THE 1922 HOLIDAY ANNUAL
BUCHAN from John Buchan's novel The Island of Sheep first
published in 1936
GOREY LEAR THE JUMBLIES measuring 14 x 10cms Edward Gorey's
inspired double page spread setting the scene for his illustrated version
of Edward Lear's The Jumblies, published in 1968 by Chatto
& Windus, measuring 14 x 42 cms. It preceds the titlepage but is not
an end paper. It is repeated at the end. "For they'd been to the
lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the Hills of the Chankly Bore...."
RANSOME
Arthur Ransome Missee Lee, Cape, London, 1941
20 x27cms; a children's fictitious adventure set off the coast of China;
here with clear colour coded tracks that correspond exactly with the narrative.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON Louis Rhead , Illustrations to
David Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson, Harper's New York 1909.
1984
A map that can be viewed from two directions, George Orwell's concept
of the world drawn by Josef-Jan Szostak, from R.C.Churchill, A Short History
of the Future, published by The Bodley Head 1955.
TREASURE
ISLAND
The advert
for the movie.
01 map included in the Cassell edition London c1905, 20.5 x 14 cms.
02 from George Hardie's illustrations to Treasure Island , Armada London
1989, paperback, detail 10 x 7 cms
03 Map included in the Eyre and Spottiswoode edition, illustrated by Mervyn
Peake, 1949, virtually copied from the above but with significant changes,
22 x 14.5 cms.
04 Map as frontispiece in the Josef Hochman illustrated edition produced
in Czechoslovakia, and published in Britain by Hamlyn in 1967. 24 x 16
cms.
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