Media Contributed by Rick
Stevenson's map of Treasure Island Map of Treasure Island from the 1883 edition by Cassel. "I sent in my manuscript, and the map along with it, to Messrs. Cassell. The proofs came, they were corrected, but I heard nothing of the map. I wrote and asked; was told it had never been received, and sat aghast. It is one thing to draw a map at random, set a scale in one corner of it at a venture, and write up a story to the measurements. It is quite another to have to examine a whole book, make an inventory of all the allusions contained in it, and with a pair of compasses, painfully design a map to suit the data. I did it; and the map was drawn again in my father’s office, with embellishments of blowing whales and sailing ships, and my father himself brought into service a knack he had of various writing, and elaborately FORGED the signature of Captain Flint, and the sailing directions of Billy Bones. But somehow it was never Treasure Island to me." (Robert Louis Stevenson, My First Book: ‘Treasure Island’, First published in the Idler, August 1894 .
Treasure Island Jim Hawkins hiding in the apple-barrel, listening to the pirates
Treasure Island 1883 First edition
Robert Louis Stevenson 1893 by Henry Walter Barnett
The Lord of the Rings This is the front cover art for the book by J. R. R. Tolkien. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher or the cover artist, Pauline Baynes.
The Last Battle This is the front cover art for the seventh and final Chronicles of Narnia book written by C. S. Lewis. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher, The Bodley Head, or the cover artist.
