Long John Silver Merchandise
Bears
Avast!, our pirate bears are sure to shiver your timbers.
Available in 3 size's, large, medium and keyring.
These intrepid bears are global travellers, and get
up to all sorts of adventures.
Send
us a picture of your bear in a far away place
and
we will post it on our upcoming "Heroic Bears" page
Prices (+ Postage and Packaging)
- Large bears (30 cm tall) £6.50
- Medium bears (13 cm tall) £4.00
- Key-ring bear (13 cm tall) £3.50
Books
Book Review
The Bristol Treasure Island Trail
By Mark Steeds of the Long John Silver Trust
Price £5.95 (ISBN: 978 0 9554455 3 8)
Reviewed by Prof. Bill Fairney
At last someone is doing something to publicise the rich literary and maritime heritage of Bristol! This little book, by a well-known Bristol enthusiast, describes in vivid detail the characters, real and fictional who sailed from the Port of Bristol and made it a great trading city. The region’s background of piracy is described together with it’s later legitimisation under the “Privateer” flag by which the British government turned a blind eye to the activities of pirates raiding the Spanish fleet whilst at the same time profiting from them. Real-life Bristol characters such as Woods Rogers, William Dampier, Alexander Selkirk and Captain Kidd are described and it is explained how their exploits led to literary gems such as Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe.
The Port of Bristol also had its seamier side being at one time a major base for the slavery trade but its greatest claim to fame in literature is that Bristol was chosen by Robert Louis Stevenson as the home of that enigmatic love-hate character, Long John Silver. A major character in his rip-roaring yarn “Treasure Island”, Silver encompassed all the requirements of present-day political correctness. With a coloured wife, only one leg and caring for a vociferous parrot, he projects a role-model for how enthusiasm, intellect, cunning and treachery can lead to an interesting life against all the odds.
The book goes on to describe the Trust’s ambition to establish a “Treasure Island Trail” around Bristol’s historic Harbourside, of statues of characters from the book. The Trust envisions that at the centre of the trail will be a statue of Long John Silver himself, outside the “Hole in the Wall” ISBNic house, widely believed to have been used by Stevenson as the basis for his “Spyglass Inn”. The aim is to erect this in time for the 125th anniversary of the publication of “Treasure Island”in 2008.
It is now time that Bristol City Council, after years of apathy, should seize this opportunity of a ready-made concept to publicise the City’s heritage and give its full backing to the Trust.
- Price £5.95 (ISBN: 978 0 9554455 3 8) Orders should be directed to www.bristolpublishers.co.uk
Mervyn Peake Prints
We are thrilled and privileged to be able to offer
for sale a strictly limited edition of 10 sets of
8 highly collectable very high quality art prints
of the famous Mervyn Peake illustrations of Treasure
Island characters. There are only a few sets left.
Huge thanks to the Mervyn Peake Estate and to our
new Patron, Sebastian Peake, for their very kind
permission to make available this limited print run. The
prints were specially selected by Sebastian Peake,
and produced on top quality art paper. The prints
are available framed and mounted as shown in the
illustrations below. Prints vary slightly in size,
on average 130mm wide x 225mm high. Frame Size
is:- 256mm wide x 344mm high.
| Mervyn Peake’s Treasure Island Illustrations:- 8 Fine Art Prints From The Long John Silver Trust |
|
| Blind Pew | Long John Silver |
| The Captain's Papers | Jim In The Apple Barrel |
| Ben Gunn Meets Jim | The Demise Of Isreal Hands |
| A Survivor | |
Price (Postage and Packaging is £10 a set of 8)
- Set of 8 Prints £280
Single prints, priced £35 each, which are also fast selling out, are only available from:-
The Clifton Bookshop
84 Whiteladies Road
Clifton
BRISTOL
BS8 2QP
Tel. 0117 983 8989
We suggest you phone The Clifton Bookshop before ordering to check that the image(s) you want is/are in stock.
Frank Shipside’s Tribute Print
To start the fundraising activities of The Long John Silver Trust, Frank was commissioned to paint his impression of what literatures most famous scallywag would look like outside Stevenson's Spy-Glass Inn. He very kindly agreed to donate his royalties to the Trust in order for our campaign to get off the ground.
It was the Trust's intention to have 150 copies of the print signed by Frank but unfortunately, after only being able to sign 70 of them, Old Father Time caught up with him at the tender age of 97 in 2005.
The Long John Silver Trust's first patron (and esteemed Bristol artist) Frank Shipsides handing over print number one to Mike Fussell outside the Hole-in-the-Wall in 2004 with a rueful Long John looking on...
The prints have sold well and there are only a small number left, and if you would like a Limited Edition copy please order by post from the address below.
“Tribute” by Frank Shipsides
Actual “Tribute” image is 385mm wide by 270mm high
Framed size is 600mm wide x 510mm high
The prints have 'lined' mounts exactly how he liked all his art work.
Price (Postage and Packaging is on a Per sale basis)
- Mounted £75
- Framed £110
Ordering & Pricing Details
- Large bears £6.50p
- Medium bears £4.00p
- Key-ring bear £3.50p
- The Bristol Treasure Island Trail £ 5.95
- Mervyn Peake Illustations from the book are £280 for a set of 8.
- Frank Shipside's 'Tribute' print is £75 mounted £110 framed.
Please send a cheque made payable to:
The Long John Silver Trust
C/O The Beaufort Arms
High Street
Hawkesbury Upton
South Gloucestershire
GL9 1AU
United Kingdom
(+44)01454 238217