Author: SPAIN, EDWARD.
Title: The Journal of Edward Spain, merchant seaman and sometimes Warrant Officer in The Royal Navy describing the conditions of life at sea during the American Revolution and the wars with France. Illustrated with engravings by Richard Stafford.
Description: First Limited Edition; Demy. 8vo; pp. [vi], 89, [2]; illustrated title page, bound in original quarter cloth with decorated papered boards, title label on spine, title lettered in gilt on label, very good copy. Bankstown; The St. Mark's Press; 1989. Printed and bound by Charles FitzHardinge-Bailey at the St Mark's Press, completed in 1989. The second book Printed at the Press, limited to 104 numbered and signed copies, printed on Cambewarra Shoalhaven all rag hand-made paper in hand-set 11 point Ehrhardt roman and italic types with Caslon display types and bound in specially designed papers made at the Press. Copy No. 49. Edward Spain was pressed into naval service, and later served with Arthur Phillip first governor of New South Wales. The manuscript journal is held by the Mitchell Library in Sydney.

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