The shipwreck, a poem. The text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions, with a life of the author by James Stanier Clarke, F.R.S.

William Falconer; J S Clarke

Published by Printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, London, 1804

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Full grained leather with elaborate gilt borders on covers and gilt lining on spine with black gilt printed label, nicely marbled endpapers and edges. xlvi, 220 pp. with 5 vignettes and 3 full plates engraved by J. Fittler after paintings by N. Pocock. This is the large-paper edition (9.5 x 6.125") of this lovely work, with a beautiful binding that will benefit from a clamshell box or attention to the front hinge by a capable binder. Well worth the investment. Falconer's poem is anarrative of the voyage of the Britannia's ill-fated journey from Alexandria to Venice, wherer it wrecked near Cape Colonna on the Greek coast. It was first published in 1762. This edition reprints the advertisements to the second (1764) and third (1769) editions. Written in three cantos in 1762, the author was drowned at sea, himself the victim of a shipwreck. Booseller's label at rear of A & I Black and H. Parry 7 Leadenhall Str(eet). VG-, front hinge and leather broken, cover barely hanging on by threads, rest of books is clean and solid only very light foxing throughout, being less than one would expect a solid text block and gilt ruled cover edges. Ancient auction label remnant on front cover. Seller Inventory # 173350

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Title: The shipwreck, a poem. The text illustrated ...

Publisher: Printed for William Miller, Old Bond Street by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, London

Publication Date: 1804

Binding: Leather bound