1885 Fine Bayntun-Riviere Binding - TREASURE ISLAND by Stevenson. First UK Illustrated Edition.
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Title: Treasure Island.
Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, Published by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, 1885. First UK Illustrated Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: viii-292 pages.
Binding: Attractive and fine binding by Bayntun-Riviere finely bound in polished red calf, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border and a large block of a sailing ship on the front. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands and double gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third on green goatskin labels and dated at the foot, the others with a ship at the center and dots in the corners, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. (Hinges fine, rear cover slightly scuffed - as shown but hardly noticeable). Under a protective removable mylar cover. An elegant and beautiful binding!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing mainly on the title page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with 27 beautiful illustrations including color frontispiece facsimile chart and additional engraved title-page after F. T. Merrill and others.
The book: Attractive and exquisite Edition of Treasure Island. First published in book form in 1883. The first US edition, issued by Roberts Bros. in 1884,
was illustrated, but with only four plates. This wonderful 1885 London edition is regarded as the first fully illustrated edition. --
Treasure Island (originally The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.
As one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels, Treasure Island was originally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks from 1881 through 1882 under the title Treasure Island or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North".
The author: Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
The binder: George Bayntun was born in 1873 in Bath, England. After an apprenticeship, he began his own bookbinding business in Bath in 1894, binding books by hand with great craftsmanship. Although many binders were using machines in their process, Bayntun refused to use modern techniques.
In 1920, George Baynton purchased the business of George Gregory, Bookseller. The shop was frequently visited by Queen Mary throughout his final years.
In 1939, the George Bayntun firm acquired the Rivière Bindery, and Bayntun passed away the following year. The firm has continued throughout the years under different managers through the family line and was granted the appointment of Bookseller to Her Majesty in 1950. The Bayntun-Rivière Bindery firm has been in residence on Manvers Street in Bath since 1939. Their books are still bound by hand, and the firm is world-famous for its fine bindings, restoration, and conservation work.