Author: Mrs Sherwood:
Title: Jack the Sailor Boy.
Description: London: Darton and Clark, no date [c. 1840]. No edition stated (softcover). 16mo (15cm by 11cm), 64pp. Frontispiece and text illustrations, all coloured. Original printed stiff card wrappers. This fragile book is only in fair condition; the backstrip is missing, the boards are detached, and there is some spotting and thumbing of the contents. A rare edition, possibly the first. Undated; COPAC lists only one copy, and estimates a date some time between 1836 and 1847. There is an ownership inscription to the front cover, dated 1845.

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