Pitcairn; The Island, The People and the Pastor, Thos. Boyles Murray, 1857

Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor; to Which is Added an Account of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island, by The Rev. Thos. Boyles Murray M.A..

Includes a discussion of the Mutiny on the Bounty, and the subsequent events which unfolded.

A good (plus) full brown leather hardback with pressed pattern design to covers and gold borders. Spine with lightly raised bands with guilt decoration and gilt burgundy Morocco title label. Covers with some scuffing and bumping, and an indentation to rear boards. Joints are rubbed, but binding is sound. A small leather loss worn through hinge where title label meets the rear board.

Endpapers with feathered marbling, matching the dyes of text block. Neat scripted presentation inscription, dated to 1872 at first blank endpapers, along with a later owner’s name from 1912.

Text is bright and clean throughout. Plates with some age toning to extremities. Plates are attractive. Some feature portraits of key figures with facsimile signatures.

xiv + 16-428pp + 16 plates (including frontispiece) - all as called for..

Dimensions: Approximately 167mm high x 110mm wide x 30mm.

Weight: approximately 370g.