1804 WILLIAM FALCONER - THE SHIPWRECK A POEM SAILOR fine binding naval poetry

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled THE SHIPWRECK, A POEM by WILLIAM FALCONER A SAILOR: The text illustrated by additional notes, and corrected from the first and second editions with A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR by James Stanier Clarke. Published in 1804 by WILLIAM MILLER, London. Illustrated with title and canto vignettes plus 3 tissue guarded plates. William Falconer (21 February 1732 – c. January 1770) was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of marine terms.Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born. He became a sailor, and thereby competent to describe the management of a storm-tossed vessel, whose career and fate are told in his poem, The Shipwreck (1762),[1] a work of genuine, if unequal talent. The efforts Falconer made to improve the poem in a later edition were not wholly successful. The work won him the patronage of the Duke of York, through whose influence he was appointed purser on various warships. He had himself been one of three survivors of a trading ship on a voyage from Alexandria to Venice. In 1751 Falconer produced a poem on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales. He had also contributed poems to the Gentleman's Magazine. The Shipwreck was dedicated to the then rear-admiral the Duke of York. Falconer was briefly a midshipman on the Royal George, then in 1763 he became purser of the frigate Glory, aboard which he wrote the political satire Demagogue. In 1767 he was purser of the Swiftsure. In 1769 he published An Universal Dictionary of the Marine. William Falconer was a passenger in the frigate Aurora when it was lost at sea on a voyage to India.[2] He was last seen on 24 December 1769. Bound in full leather boards. Gilt title lettering on a green block to the spine. The spine has been re-backed at sometime. Gilt decoration to the spine and frame the boards. Boards are firm. Board corners are bumped. Hand marbled endpapers. Gilt dentelle. Pencil note on the ffep. Tanning and age soil to the first few pages, but generally the pages are clean and bright. The book is in good condition, tightly bound with no loose pages 25cm x 15cm xlvi, 220pp Postage and packing : I know that you will be looking forward to receiving your order, each book is carefully wrapped in packing paper ( I have changed from bubble wrap to try and reduce my use of plastic) and posted in a Jiffy bag if size permitting, if not it is double wrapped in corrugated cardboard, brown paper and then securely taped. To keep the cost of the postage down to the most economical level per book, you may consider buying more than 1 item from my eBay account. You can then request a combined postage cost and I will combine the items into the fewest parcels as possible - saving you money :) My main posting days are Monday and Thursday ie. If you place an order and payment is received after Thursday 12.00 noon your order will be posted out on Monday. If you place an order and payment is received after Monday 12.00 noon your order will be posted out Thursday morning. If you require your book urgently please contact me and I will do my best. :) Please note that all local taxes , import duties and vat are at the customers own expense.

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