This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...yards aback!" His great Example every bosom fires, New life rekindles and new Hope inspires. X M1ZEN-MAST HEWN DOWN. 94 While to the Helm unfaithful still she lies, One desperate remedy at last he tries--" Haste! withyour weapons cut the Shrouds and Stay, " And hew at once the Mizen-mast away!" He said ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...yards aback!" His great Example every bosom fires, New life rekindles and new Hope inspires. X M1ZEN-MAST HEWN DOWN. 94 While to the Helm unfaithful still she lies, One desperate remedy at last he tries--" Haste! withyour weapons cut the Shrouds and Stay, " And hew at once the Mizen-mast away!" He said: to cut the girding Stay they run, Soon on each side the severed Shrouds are gone: Fast by the fated Pine bold Rodmond stands, Th' impatient axe hung gleaming in his hands; Brandished on high, it fell with dreadful sound, The tall Mast groaning felt the deadly wound; Deep gashed beneath, the tottering structure rings, And crashing, thundering, o'er the Quarter swings: Thus, when some limb convulsed with pangs of death Imbibes the gangrene's pestilential breath, Th' experienced Artist from the blood betrays The latent venom, or its course delays: But, if th' infection triumphs o'er his art Tainting the vital stream that warms the heart, To stop the course of Death's inflaming tides Th' infected member from the trunk divides. END OF THE SECOND CANTO. THIRD CANTO: The Scene is extended from that part of the Archipelago which lies ten miles to the northward of Falconera, to Cape Colona i Attica. THE TIME ABOUT SEVEN HOURS; FBOM ONE, UNTIL EIGHT IN THE MORNING. ARGUMENT. I. Reflections on the beneficial influence of Poetry.. Diffidence of the Author..II. Wreck of the Mizcn-Mast cleared away... Ship veers before the wind, .labours hard..Different stations of the Officers.. Appearance of the Island of Falconera.. III. Excursion to the adjacent Nations of Gueecf. renowned in antiquity.. Athens.. Socrates, Plato, Arislides.. Solon.. Com Nth., its Architecture.. Sparta.. Lcunidas.. Invasion by Xerxes.. Lycurgus.. Epaminon-das.. Present state of...
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10 engr illus (incl vignts) Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Used Good in lthr/boards (wear to spine/corners; sl rubbing). Tall 12mo ix+[1]+1 66+pl Notable illustrated edition of the most familiar work of the English poet, seafarer and adventurer (1732-69); "A New and Improved Edition; with Memoirs of the Author" (title page; memoirs are uncredited). Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco over orange marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine, plain en dpapers (worn chiefly at spine and corners, particularly on upper cover).
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Add this copy of The Shipwreck: a Poem to cart. $75.00, Sold by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published by London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1868.
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169 pp. First edition. Prize calf binding of the Stafford College, Forest Hill. Detached form spine on one side. Illustrated by Birket Foster. With life of author By Robert Carruthers.
Add this copy of The Shipwreck, a Poem to cart. $125.00, good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1804 by Bensley.
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Good. With a life of the author by James Stanier Clarke. Illustrated with 3 engraved plates and 5 engraved vignettes. 220pp. Tall 8vo, contemporary straight-grained navy calf, gilt borders and spine, a.e.g. (edges worn; spine a bit dull; scattered foxing and soiling; one plate repaired). London: Printed for William Miller by T. Bensley, 1804. A new edition. Good. "An excellent descriptive poem" by the Scottish sailor-poet. Lowndes 776. "It deserves a rather exceptional position from the obvious fidelity with which he has painted from nature." NB VI 1029.
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Very Good. [Fine nautical binding] 12mo. Bound in straight grained, morocco leather. Gilt ruled and lettered. Nautical scenes embossed on front and back boards, and spine. All edges gilt. Minor rubbing/scuffing. Library bookplate and blind stamp on title page. viii. 116 pages. Frontispiece engraving by Cooke and engraved of the ship hovering on the verge of death. A descriptive account of the voyage of the merchantman, Britannia, from Egypt to Venice. The ship sailed into a violent storm, which drove it into the coast of Greece. Shipwrecked, only 3 of the crew survived.
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Signed by Author(s) First edition thus. 8vo. 4 full-page and 5 vignette steel engravings by James Fittler after paintings by Nicholas Pocock. Introductory letter and biographical memoir by James Stainer Clarke. Later dark blue cloth, marbled edges. Good-very good. Poem in three cantos by Falconer (1732-69), servant of Alexander Campbell and patronized by the Duke of York; shipmate in the Levant trade between Alexandria and Venice who drew on these experiences for the poem, and lost at sea 7 years following the publication of the first edition. Laid down on the verso of the title page is a partly printed receipt, signed by Falconer, to Stilling Fleet Durnford, Esq., acknowledging receipt of half a guinea as the first payment for an unidentified work. With advertisements to the second (1764) and third (1769) editions.