[Rarebooks] fa: ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN by A NAVAL OFFICER 1817 - 25 HAND-COLORED PLATES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other illustrated works, auctions ending Sunday, February 3. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

[Alfred Thornton; Charles Williams, illustrator:] The Adventures of a Post Captain: By a Naval Officer. With Characteristic Engravings, by Mr. Williams. London: J. Johnston [etc.], [1817]. First edition, second issue. Tall 8vo (23.5 cm); modern half navy blue morocco over paste paper boards, gilt spine titles; [4] + 280 pp; with 25 hand-colored aquatint plates,  including the frontispiece and title-page. Tooley 485.

The engraved title-page give the title slightly differently:The Post Captain or The Adventures of a True British Tar. By either name, a rollicking salty sea saga in verse accompanied by Williams's spirited illustrations. Some offsetting from the plates; last text leaf browned and creased with paper repairs to the edges; scattered spotting, mostly to the text leaves; otherwise quite clean and sound, firmly bound.