The Riddle of the Sands
( Daniel WHISTLER, illus. ) CHILDERS, Erskine
Introduction by Maldwin Drummond. Illustrations by Daniel Whistler. [Emblematic sailcloth binding.]
NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Published: Folio Society, 1992
Stock code: 51705
Price: £40.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrated title-spread, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps on pale brown stock; pictorial terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in gilt and black, red top, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This first FS edition is the only one bound in sailcloth dyed to match the sails of Baltic barges; later printings reverted to a more conventional bookcloth. Folio 60, 717.