1st Ed. XIII, 286 PP with 1 map, plus 8 plates with 9 b/w illustrations. Errata slip tipped on page 1. Fp: Portrait of Frederick Marryat. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers slightly rubbed and soiled. Bookplate on front endpaper and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page, remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Occasional foxing. Overall, contents very clean and still a very good copy. 22.3 x 14.5. Joined the Royal Navy a year after Trafalgar. Retired from the Navy in 1830, after his last command on H.M.S. Ariadne, after the first Burmese war. Then a novelist. Seller Inventory # 68674

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Title: CAPTAIN MARRYAT AND THE OLD NAVY

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co. London. .

Publication Date: 1939

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

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