Robert Louis Stevenson — Treasure Island

London, Methuen, 1976. Cloth. A lovely illustrated edition of Stevenson's classic maritime adventure novel, featuring the drawings of Mervyn Peake and presented in the increasingly scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, encased in the increasingly scarce and unclipped, pictorial dust wrapper. Featuring a colour map and numerous further drawings in the text, including illustrated title pages for all six parts and a number of additional full-page examples. Artwork by successful British artist and author Mervyn Peake, best known for the fantastical Gormenghast trilogy. First published in book form in 1883, the original Peake-illustrated edition appearing in 1949, Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel, following the young Jim Hawkins after his discovery of a treasure map leads him aboard the Hispaniola and into the company of the charismatic Long John Silver.   In the publisher's original cloth binding, encased in the increasingly scarce and unclipped, pictorial dust wrapper. Externally, lovely condition with only minor bumping and rubbing and a very light scattering of marks to the rear board. Dust wrapper very smart with the exception of a small closed tear towards the spine tail, internally tape-reinforced. Covers are lightly marked but generally bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Mervyn Peake. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.