Betwixt The Forelands..
Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Endpapers a little mottled but otherwise a fine clean copy.
£85.00
Publisher
Sampson, Low, Marston and Company Limited, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.,
Place
London
Date
[c.1890]..
Synopsis
New and cheaper edition [second edition].
Item Description
8vo. 5 x 7 inches. xi + [i] + + 330 pp. with 25 wood-engraved illustrations. Half title.
Illustrations
Illustrated with 14 wood engraved plates, including frontispiece and 11 woodcuts in text.
Notes
Scarce history of the coast from Ramsgate to Dover and the Goodwin Sands in the form of historical essays from the earliest times to the author's own day. They include, naval battles, smuggling, lifeboats, wrecks, shipping and craft and a host of other events which have happend 'Twixt the Forelands'. From the pen of one of the greatest of Victorian sea story writers, and a champion of reform in the merchant service (1844-1911). We have only seen one copy of the first issue which appeard in pictorial cloth in 1889, it was seldom reprinted unlike his sea yarns.
[Stock No. 21298]
