Author: Quinn, Tom,
Title: SMUGGLERS' TALES.
Description: David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1999, 1st edn., 192pp, pictorial half title and title, coloured pictorial frontis, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, chapter heads in line, large format (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, for centuries smuggling was a major feature of life in every part of Britain and the smuggler was, unlike today, almost universally supported so that duty on spirits, lace, tobacco, tea, etc. could be abvoided. The days of the romantic smugglers ended in the middle of the nineteenth century but the memory of their exploits lives on and a selection of the best is reproduced here, bump fore-edge lower boartd, dustwrapper: dent fore-edge lower flap fold, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: british history smugglers contraband cutters luggers ghosts ghouls


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