BETWIXT THE FORELANDS. New and cheaper edition [second edition].
DEAL - RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK.
From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 14 August 2012
From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 14 August 2012
About this Item
8vo. 5 x 7 inches. xi + [i] + + 330 pp. with 25 wood-engraved illustrations. Half title. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Endpapers a little mottled but otherwise a fine clean copy. Illustrated with 14 wood engraved plates, including frontispiece and 11 woodcuts in text. 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. KENT GOODWIN SANDS KENT - EAST KENT GOODWIN SANDS CHANNEL HISTORY MARITIME KENT. Seller Inventory # 21298
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Title: BETWIXT THE FORELANDS. New and cheaper ...
Publisher: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company Limited, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. [c.1890]., London
Publication Date: 1890
Condition: Kent Bibliography
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