Full morocco leather
1790 · London
by DICKENSON, Jonathan
London: James Phillips, 1790. Early reprint. Full morocco leather. Very Good. 12mo (10 x 16 cm.) Pp. xiv - 136. Marbled endpapers. Exquisitely rebound by Sanford in plum morocco with gilt backstrip; inner dentelles. With a couple light scuffs on rear board, else a bright, handsome copy. A later edition of this early and perhaps most famous American shipwreck narratives, first published in 1699 -- a book that was long thought to be the first published in Philadelphia.Barrow was a Quaker missionary enroute from Jamaica to Philadelphia when his ship, the Reformation was wrecked off the Florida coast. Survivors were captured by Indians before eventually (truncated)