Complete and unabridged, with 13 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Robert Feke and Pieter Mulier. Pyle on pirates - his own retellings of Blackbeard, Kidd and Morgan, with the essays and the pictures that fixed the pirate in the modern imagination. The cocked hat, the sash, the treasure chest on the beach: all of it is his. This edition adds a gallery of 13 plates, among them paintings by Howard Pyle, Robert Feke and Abraham Storck, and 47 illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.