1929 Peter Simple

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Complete in two volumes. First illustrated edition, limited to seven hundred and fifty copies for England and America. With a portrait frontispiece of the author and twenty-one collotype plates. Collated complete. An 1834 novel originally published in serialized form in the The Metropolitan Magazine in 1832-33, during Marryat's editorship. This novel follows the naval career of a young gentleman introduced as 'the fool of the family' during the period of British mastery of the seas in the early nineteenth century. Written by Captain Frederick Marryat, a Royal Navy officer and novelist, noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction. Illustrated by Robert William Buss, a Victorian artist, etcher and illustrator. With a biographical essay by Michael Sadleir, a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer.