The Life of Paul Jones, From Original Documents in the Possession of John Henry Sherburne, Esq Register of the Navy of the United States

Paul Jones; John Henry Sherburne

Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1825

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20 x 13 cm. Small octavo. xii 320pp. Half-title. Bound in 1/2 leather spine and dark blue pebbled boards. Gilt top foredge. Marble endpapers. Spine toned to brown, and some scuffing to spine. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Preface begins: "Paul Jones is known as a rebel and a pirate. Five and twenty years have not elapsed since the nurses of Scotland hushed their crying infants by the whispter of his name, and chap-books are even now to be purchased in which he is depicted in all the plenitude of terrific glory, the rival of Blackbeard, and the worthy successor of the Buccaneers. Seller Inventory # 64921

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Life of Paul Jones, From Original ...

Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street, London

Publication Date: 1825

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First edition.