Heading: (Golden Cockerell Press)
Author: Bligh, William
Title: The Log of the Bounty: Being Lieutenant William Bligh's Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, to Take the Breadfruit From the Society Islands to the West Indies
Place Published: [Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire]
Publisher:Golden Cockerel Press
Date Published: 1937
Description:

2 volumes. Introduction and Notes by Owen Rutter. Comments on Bligh's Navigation by Rear Admiral J.A. Edgell. Four wood engravings by Lytton Lamb. 31.5x18.5 cm (12½x7½"), two-tone cloth, spines lettered in gilt. No. 255 of 300 sets printed from the official manuscript in the Admiralty Records by Christopher & Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press.

First publication of Bligh's Bounty Log, which Hill notes "contains many important passages which do not appear in either of Bligh's previously published books, as well as information patiently collected on the social lives of the Tahitians. Much of the technical detail is of great interest to those who care for ships and the sea. After visiting Tahiti and the Tonga Islands, the crew mutinied under the leadership of Fletcher Christian, the master's mate. The mutiny was largely due to Bligh's harshness to his crew, and also partly to the attachments that had sprung up between the crew and certain women of Tahiti, where the Bounty afterwards returned, before sailing to Pitcairn Island." Hill 141.

Light wear to cloth, bookplates, rare spotting but overall a bright copy; near fine.