George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 - First Edition, First Impression - Navy Morocco Design Binding I.W. Taber illustrations the inclusion of the accounts

the inclusion of the accounts of the demise of those who prosecuted James

meteorologist and astronomer

framed in dense gilt and paired with his lavish floral spine — remains wonderfully sharp on this copy

and the forging of character through hardship at sea

with dramatic red morocco onlays and geometric gilt tooling to both boards

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 - First Edition, First Impression - Navy Morocco Design Binding I.W. Taber illustrations the inclusion of the accountsORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty Four. First Edition, First Impression, 1949. Navy Morocco Design Binding. ORWELL, George [Eric Arthur Blair]. Nineteen Eighty Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Striking full navy morocco design binding, with dramatic red morocco onlays and geometric gilt tooling to both boards, centred upon a solitary dark figure beneath converging forms suggestive of surveillance,