C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne — Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer

London, Methuen & Co. 1901. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Hyne"s exciting historical adventure novel, transforming Prince Rupert into a buccaneering hero of the Spanish Main, illustrated with eight plates after G. Grenville Manton. In the publisher's original red cloth binding.  The first edition, following serial publication in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1897-98.  Illustrated with eight plates after G. Grenville Manton, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete.  A spirited historical romance transforming Prince Rupert of the Rhine into a swashbuckling hero of the Spanish Main. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866-1944) was an English novelist and journalist, best remembered for creating Captain Kettle and for his lost-world novel The Lost Continent.  In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, heavier to spine ends and perimeters of rear boards. Light soiling to boards. Slight discolouration to spine. Slight lifting and fraying to cloth at rear paste down. Light scattered spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots and handling marks, heavier to fore edge of first and last few leaves. Leaves slightly unevenly trimmed. Very small closed tear to margin of plate facing p.32, not affecting the image. Very slight cockling to gutter of frontispiece. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: G. Grenville Manton. Very Good Indeed .