A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters At Sea. 4 Volume Set. This item is unavailable.A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters At Sea. 4 Volume Set

12mo. 4 volumes quarter bound in contemporary green leather. illus., plates. 15 cm. Marbled boards. Good binding and cover. Minor wear to extremities. Volume 1 front board detached. Library sticker on Volumes 2 and 4; damaged from removal of sticker on Volume 1. Ex-library bookplate on inside front board in each volume. Clean, unmarked pages with minimal toning. Please feel free to view our photographs. Cyrus Redding wastThe son of a Baptist minister, Redding was privately educated. He moved to London about 1806, and worked for the Pilot (est. 1807) before editing the Plymouth Chronicle and then the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser which he founded in 1810. Travelling to Paris in 1814, Redding edited Galignani's Messenger from 1815 to 1818, as well as providing Paris correspondence for the Examiner. Between 1821 and 1830 Redding effectively edited The New Monthly Magazine (owned b y Henry Colburn, and nominally edited by Thomas Campbell). From 1831 to 1833 Redding and Campbell edited The Metropolitan Magazine. He edited the Bath Guardian (1834-35) and the Staffordshire Examiner (1836-40). In 1841 he made two unsuccessful attempts to found journals, the English Journal and London Journal. After that time he abandoned journalism for the writing of books. To his earlier novel, Gabrielle (1829), a children's book on shipwrecks (1833) and his history of wine (1833), he now began a series of county histories, memoirs of William Beckford and Thomas Campbell, and volumes of autobiography and reminiscences.…