Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling gold leaf His work for Macmillan and

His work for Macmillan and others — including Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales (1910) and The Water-Babies (1913) — firmly established him among the foremost illustrators of the early twentieth century

The narrative explores themes of hard work and man's struggle against nature

Alongside these stand the comic inventiveness of The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine

A superbly presented first impression of George Orwell's defining novel

Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling gold leaf His work for Macmillan andLondon: Published by Macmillan and Co., 1897 With illustrations by I. W. Taber. First English Edition, published approximately one month after the American edition. Two pages of undated advertisements at rear. Bound in the original blue cloth, with pictorial gilt decoration, all edges gilt. This handsome volume is the fourth and final work to be bound in Macmillan's distinctive gilt decorated style previously used for The Jungle Books (1894 95) and