Captain Frederick Marryat; Michael Sadleir — Peter Simple

London, Constable and Co Ltd , 1929. Cloth. The complete two-volume limited edition of Captain Frederick Marryat's Napoleonic war novel, with illustrations. A limited edition of 750 unnumbered copies. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Illustrated with twenty-one collotype plates of etchings and drawings by Robert William Buss. Collated, complete. An illustrated edition of 'Peter Simple', a novel by Frederick Marryat. following a young British midshipman during the Napoleonic wars, originally published in serialised form in 1833. Marryat is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction as well as for developing a widely used system of maritime flag signalling named Marryat's Code. With an introductory biographical essay on the author by Michael Sadlier. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and slight bumping to the extremities. With minor fading to Vol I spine. Bookplate of the Rev. B. Koyland to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with scattered spotting throughout, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: R. W. Buss. Very Good Indeed .