Author: Marryat, [Frederick],
Title: The Pirate, and The Three Cutters. By Captain Marryat, R.N. Illustrated with twenty splendid engraves from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield.
Description: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. First edition. - Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. - Binding somewhat stained, edges slightly rubbed, spine faded, margins of plates slightly foxing, one plate with edgewaer to corner, one plate with three small marginal defects, frontispice and engraved title-page waterstained in the upper margin, previous owner`s ink inscription to title, else a good copy. 3 leaves, 315 pp. With 20 engravings, including a portrait of Captain Marryat to frontispiece and a vignette half title. 8°, orig. leather with

Keywords: Seeromane, sea-stories


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