Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)

Jiří Trnka (1912-1969)

KORMIDELNÍK VLNOVSKÝ

1945
Format 4°, 23.5x17.5 cm, 257 numbered pp., in Czech. Hardcover binding with the original dust jacket bearing a colour lithograph. Title page printed in black and red. Frontispiece an original lithograph by Jiří Trnka. The book contains a further 14 original, full-page, colour lithographs signed in pencil "Trnka 49", along with further illustrations in the text. Translated from the English original by Alois Machovec. Based on the 1848 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, published in 1945 by Melantrich, second edition. Dust jacket torn, reinforced with paper tape, wrapper shows signs of use. The lithograph on p. 80 torn 3 cm at the top. Provenance: Galerie Moderna