Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main

· Aeneas Press
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Pyle on pirates - his own retellings of Blackbeard, Kidd and Morgan, with the essays and the pictures that fixed the pirate in the modern imagination. The cocked hat, the sash, the treasure chest on the beach: all of it is his. This edition adds a gallery of 13 plates, among them paintings by Howard Pyle, Robert Feke and Abraham Storck, and 47 illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.
Pyle on pirates - his own retellings of Blackbeard, Kidd and Morgan, with the essays and the pictures that fixed the pirate in the modern imagination. The cocked hat, the sash, the treasure chest on the beach: all of it is his. This edition adds a gallery of 13 plates, among them paintings by How...

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Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American writer and illustrator born in Wilmington, Delaware, and the founder of a school of illustration that trained N. C. Wyeth and Jessie Willcox Smith. He wrote and illustrated his own books. His works include The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Book of Pirates, Otto of the Silver Hand, and The Story of King Arthur.
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American writer and illustrator born in Wilmington, Delaware, and the founder of a school of illustration that trained N. C. Wyeth and Jessie Willcox Smith. He wrote and illustrated his own books. His works include The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Book of Pirates...

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