BULLEN, FRANK T. Autograph manuscript signed of the sea novel A Bounty Boy: Being some adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an unpremeditated trip round the World. 306 pages, 4to, written in ink on the rectos of lined sheets, with light holograph revisions. Bound in dark blue calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, blue half morocco slipcase . The manuscript is inscribed by the author on verso of front free endpaper: "To my loving Friend and most faithful Helper Mat. with all my love Frank T. Bullen. October 1907." A Bounty Boy was first published by Marshall in London in 1907; it was reissued by the same firm in 1912. In the Preface to the manuscript (dated "Melbourn, Cambs. Sept 1907") Bullen writes: "...I have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom I have the highest admiration, the descendants of the mutineers of the 'Bounty' who I maintain are a standing proof of the miraculous power of the Gospel in the regeneration of mankind when unhindered by sacerdotal interference...I have taken one typical islander, the Bounty Boy, out of his surroundings into the world and told his adventures therein..." The "descendants of the mutineers" Bullen deals with were those transported to Norfolk Island, the Australian penal colony.
BULLEN, FRANK T. Autograph manuscript signed of the sea novel A Bounty Boy: Being some adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an unpremeditated trip round the World. 306 pages, 4to, written in ink on the rectos of lined sheets, with light holograph revisions. Bound in dark blue calf and marbled boards, gilt spine, blue half morocco slipcase . The manuscript is inscribed by the author on verso of front free endpaper: "To my loving Friend and most faithful Helper Mat. with all my love Frank T. Bullen. October 1907." A Bounty Boy was first published by Marshall in London in 1907; it was reissued by the same firm in 1912. In the Preface to the manuscript (dated "Melbourn, Cambs. Sept 1907") Bullen writes: "...I have endeavoured to sketch a community for whom I have the highest admiration, the descendants of the mutineers of the 'Bounty' who I maintain are a standing proof of the miraculous power of the Gospel in the regeneration of mankind when unhindered by sacerdotal interference...I have taken one typical islander, the Bounty Boy, out of his surroundings into the world and told his adventures therein..." The "descendants of the mutineers" Bullen deals with were those transported to Norfolk Island, the Australian penal colony.
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