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Title: Story Of Richard Falconer. Also includes Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager.
Description: Reprint; 8vo; pp. 32; 1 b/w line drawn illustration; original stiff marbled wrapper, previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper, fading to wrapper, bumping to edges, a good copy. n.p. 'This narrative is reprinted, with some slight alterations from a rare old work, now little known, but which was a favourite with Sir Walter Scott in his younger days, as appears from the following observations made by him on the blank leaf of a copy which had been in his possession: 'This book I read in my early youth. I am ignorant whether it is altogether fictitious, and written upon Defoe's plan, which it generally resembles, or whether it is only an exaggerated account of the adventures of a real person. It is very scarce; for, endeavouring to add it to the other favourites of my infancy, I think I looked for it ten years to no purpose, and at last owed it to active kindness of Mr. Terry: yet Richard Falconer's Adventures seem to have passed through several editions.'

Keywords: narrative of a voyage maritime history Wager John Byron Richard Falconer adventures fiction