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WESTWARD HO! Voyages of Sir Amyas Leigh Knight of Burrough CHARLES KINGSLEY 1935

WESTWARD HO! Voyages of Sir Amyas Leigh Knight of Burrough CHARLES KINGSLEY 1935

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Westward Ho!
Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh Knight of Burrough in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.

By Charles Kingsley

With Sixteen Coloured Illustrations by Ellis Silas

Published by George G. Harrap, London, 1935. HArdback book, 4to (25 x 19cm). Wine cloth with gilt titles. 634pp, colour frontis & 15 colour plates by Ellis Silas.

Westward Ho! is an 1855 British historical novel by Charles Kingsley. The novel was based on the adventures of Elizabethan corsair Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World, where they battle with the Spanish.

CONDITION
A good copy. The cloth binding is good. Endpapers good. Front inside board has a school prize slip pasted to it. All contents present inclduing all 16 colour plates. Pages clean throughout and free from foxing etc. Overall a lovely copy.
(Children's; Bottom shelf)
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