signed deluxe extra-illustrated issue

Wagner makes use of all available material to reconstruct Drake's voyage and "restore the enterprise to its true status as the first expedition sent out by English adventurers for the discovery of new trades to reach the fabled Spice Islands of the East".

First edition, no. 85 of 100 extra-illustrated and specially bound examples, signed by the author; 4to (28.5 x 22 cm); 12 plates and 62 in-text illustrations, extra illustrated with 21 additional plates and maps, signed by author to limitation page; contemporary full green morocco by Whitman Bennett, gilt ruled boards with gilt rolled turn-ins, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, top edge gilt, a little wear to extremities, lower hinge starting to split but solid, a very good copy; x, [2], 543 pp.

Howes W9.