The wanderings of Tom Starboard, or, The life of a sailor :
his voyages and travels, perils and adventures, by sea and land /
by the author of "The children's fire-side," "The young wanderer's cave," &c. &c. ; with six engravings.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : John Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1830
- Summary
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A fine, heroic, almost swashbuckling tale, in which the protagonist rescues the wife and children of a boyhood friend when their ship bound for India is wrecked on a rocky island.
- Note
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Dark green roan.
Red roan; with Marjorie Moon's gray dust jacket with typed cover title.
Red roan; rebacked with original spine laid down.
Marjorie Moon's illustrated bookplate on front pastedown.
Inscribed "Charles Horner, from his tenderly attached Mother, 1831" on front free endpaper; and "Charles Horner, 1830" at head of t.p.
Inscribed on free endpaper: "Edward S. Evans Hartoph(?), the gift of his dear Papa, 1831."
Catalog dated MDCCCXXX (1830).
Catalog dated MDCCCXXX (1830).
Catalog dated MDCCCXXXI (1831).
Publisher's catalog on [24] p. at end.
Illustrations: Steel-engraved frontispiece and five plates throughout the text dated "Decr. 1830."
Plates partially hand-colored, apparently by a child-reader.
"It will be perhaps unnecessary to say more respecting this tale, than that every physiological fact, and all the subjects connected with scientific information contained in the book, rest on the authority of modern travellers and on accredited works of science"-- publisher's list.
Publisher from colophon on p. [296].
Author from Moon, cited below.
- Physical Description
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295, [1], [24] p., [6] leaves of plates :
ill. (steel-engravings) ;
18 cm.
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