MARRYAT, CAPTAIN [FREDERICK] — Jacob Faithful (Everyman's Library #618)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [1912]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1912). Captain [Frederick] Marryat's 1834 novel features his title character, who was born on a River Thames working lighter and spent his life on the river. Per the introduction by R. Brimley Johnson, "There are readers who consider 'Jacob Faithful' to be the best of Marryat's novels." Entry 618 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed carmine cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- The front cover had partially separated from the textblock but has been re-attached, and with prior owner's signature in pencil to front paste-down along with a tear to a tanned rear endpaper and a couple of black markings to back cover. The binding is stable and interior is tightly-bound.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); viii, 522 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .