Author: William Falconer; Robert Carruthers
Title: The Shipwreck
Description: London, Adam and Charles Black , 1858. Cloth. A new edition of William Falconer's maritime poem with illustrations by Birket Foster. Poem telling of the final voyage of the merchant ship Britannia and her crew. Written by William Falconer, Scottish epic poet of the eighteenth century, mostly concerned with life at sea.Edition adorned with numerous vignettes in text by celebrated illustrator Birket Foster. With a memoir of the life of Falconer by Robert Carruthers.From the library of Egerton Parker featuring his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative gilt to boards and spine. Externally generally smart with minor shelf wear only, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip lightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Birket Foster. Very Good .

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