Ornament with Sybil Tawse signature
Sybil Tawse
Illustrations for Mr. Midshipman Easy
by Captain Fredrich Marryat

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Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy spine
Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy

A & C Black, Ltd., 1921
8vo, 356pp
8 colour plates


Decorated spine and front cover on two colours of cloth and dustwrapper for the 1921 first edition.

 
Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy alternate
  Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy dustwrapper
 
  Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy second alternate

Then another colour scheme for the 1930 Black's Boys' and Girls' Library edition cover, which only included four of the eight colour plates.

 


Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 1

1. "'Who am I, sir?' My name is Sawbridge, sir."

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 2

2. Johnny upsets the urn.

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 3

3. About two o'clock in the morning the padrone came aft
to see if they were asleep, but found Gascoigne watching.

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 4

4. "Oh, mother, 'tis he — I recollect now, 'tis he."

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 5

5. When Jack, throwing off his cloak and advancing to the top
of the precipice . . . yelled a most unearthly "Ha ! Ha ! Ha !"

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 6

6. Easy and Gascoigne hastened to the signora and
Agnes and conducted them up the ladder.

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 7

7. "I throw him in, and den I throw plenty
large pieces rock on him," said Mesty.

Sybil Tawse - Mr Midshipman Easy 8

8. Mr. Easy was busy with a plaster cast of a human head.


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