May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MARRYAT, CAPTAIN [FREDERICK.] Masterman Ready; or, the Wreck of the Pacific. Written for young people. 3 volumes. Engraved frontispieces and numerous text vignettes. Publisher's advertisements in each volume (dated December 1841; April 1842; and October 1842). 8vo, publisher's blue-green cloth bound by Westleys and Clark with their ticket in first 2 vols., blindstamped covers, gilt-lettered spines, corners soft, scattered mild soiling; bookseller's ticket to front pastedowns, vol. 1 with bookplate tipped to front flyleaf, endleaves discolored in vol. 2, contents generally quite clean; housed in 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1841-42

Additional Details

first edition, with volume one in the first state without "VOL 1" on the spine (the other volumes were not yet planned). A tight, square set in the original cloth. Sadleir 1583.