Treasure Island & Kidnapped

N.C. Wyeth's illustrations to Treasure Island and Kidnapped, published in 1911 and 1913 by Charles Scribners Sons, made his artistic reputation. This classic author-illustrator pairing is now available in a handsome two-volume slipcased set, typeset anew and printed and bound to a high standard. It also includes a new introduction by Christine B. Podmaniczky, a leading expert on N.C. Wyeth, who reveals his daring approach to these illustrations and explores their later influence on visual culture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 10 December 2021
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.

N.C. Wyeth's illustrations to Treasure Island and Kidnapped, first published in 1911 and 1913, respectively, by Charles Scribners Sons, established his artistic reputation. With a bold mastery of light and color, Wyeth brilliantly conveyed action, character, and setting, lending an extra excitement to Robert Louis Stevenson's tales of pirates and buried treasure, as well as intrigue in the Scottish Highlands. Now readers can enjoy this classic author-illustrator pairing in a handsome two-volume slipcased set, typeset anew and printed and bound to a high standard.

This collectible set also includes a new introduction by Christine B. Podmaniczky, a leading expert on N.C. Wyeth. She reveals Wyeth's daring approach to these illustrations, which he painted at a large scale, directly on the canvas, and explores their later influence on visual culture, including stage and screen adaptations of Stevenson's novels.

Also available: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn boxed set, ISBN 9780789213679.

Weight: 1288g
Dimension: 155 x 235 x 58 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780789214089